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2.6.19 Linux Kernel Released
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kdawson
on Thu Nov 30, 2006 01:48 PM
from the come-and-get-it dept.
from the come-and-get-it dept.
diegocgteleline.es writes, "After two months, Linux 2.6.19 has been released. It includes the clustering GFS2 filesystem, Ecryptfs, the first developer-oriented version of EXT4, support for the Atmel AVR32 architecture, sleepable RCU, improvements for NUMA-based systems, an "-o flush" mount option aimed at FAT-based hotpluggable media devices (mp3), physical CPU hotplug and memory hot-add in x86-64, support for compiling x86 kernels with the GCC stack protection, and many other things. You can check the full list of changes in LinuxChanges."
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This release has been pronounced perfect (Score:1, Offtopic)
(http://www.emacswiki...iki/ChristopherSmith | Last Journal: Wednesday November 07, @07:35AM)
Sex sells, even if it's just an allusion to the "lookin' for love in all the ronngg places" variety.
Stand by for the premiere of 2.6.20 on YouTube, where Linus, speech slurring from too many milkshakes, makes a poopy joke at a puppet show while a cel phone camera is accidentally pointed at him.
Atmel AVR32 (Score:1)
(http://bearfruit.org/blog)
Re:Atmel AVR32 (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.microsoft.com/)
Re:Atmel AVR32 (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.hyperlogos.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday July 18, @08:19PM)
GFS2 (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday June 14 2006, @01:11PM)
Hotplugging CPU and Memory?!?!? (Score:2)
(http://members.tripod.com/RomanaImperia | Last Journal: Friday April 22 2005, @03:20PM)
Sounds like fun (Score:3, Funny)
It's one of those rare "perfect" kernels. So if it doesn't happen to compile with your config (or it does compile, but then does unspeakable acts of perversion with your pet dachshund), you can rest easy knowing that it's all your own d*mn fault, and you should just fix your evil ways.
You could send me and the kernel mailing list a note about it anyway, of course. (And perhaps pictures, if your dachshund is involved. Not that we'd be interested, of course. No. Just so that we'd know to avoid it next time).
So.. Who has a dachshund and a camera? And what does a kernel doing unspeakable acts of perversion with a dog look like anyway?
Re:Sounds like fun (Score:5, Funny)
i'd describe it but, it's unspeakable.
this linux thingy must be taking off... (Score:5, Funny)
Do you have no shame? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://kadin.sdf-us.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 16, @01:46PM)
It's people like you that make "Linux Genuine Advantage" necessary.
TPM encryption (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:TPM encryption (Score:5, Interesting)
TPM is neither good nor bad
How operating systems and applications use TPM can be good or evil
In all that I've read about TPM, I've concluded that TPM is not much more than a glorified hardware based public/private key management system. The reference implementations I seen attach to the same slow hardware buses that PS/2 keyboard and mice sit. There is not enough bandwidth on that bus to encrypt/decrypt whole disks in real time.
Slashdot anti-Linux bias (Score:5, Funny)
(http://shockandblog.com/blog)
[FWIW] cryptfs (Score:2)
Pretty easy to set up, and no trouble so far, but annoying that it asks for the passphrase for each encrypted volume twice during boot, and and doesn't fail gracefully if you mistype anything.
*sniff* (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Saturday November 10, @01:52PM)
This homeless thing can be real inconvenient.
Vista? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Really a shame (Score:1)
Re:Really a shame (Score:2)