Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Released 341
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diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux kernel 2.6.30 has been released. The list of new features includes NILFS2 (a new, log-structured filesystem), a filesystem for object-based storage devices called exofs, local caching for NFS, the RDS protocol (which delivers high-performance reliable connections between the servers of a cluster), a new distributed networking filesystem (POHMELFS), automatic flushing of files on renames/truncates in ext3, ext4 and btrfs, preliminary support for the 802.11w drafts, support for the Microblaze architecture, the Tomoyo security MAC, DRM support for the Radeon R6xx/R7xx graphic cards, asynchronous scanning of devices and partitions for faster bootup, the preadv/pwritev syscalls, several new drivers and many other small improvements."
Re:Sad, but true: (Score:4, Funny)
In related news (Score:5, Funny)
Meanwhile back at GNOME H.Q. the developers are still undecided whether to move the "Ok" button on the default help screen 10 pixels to the right. Most think it would be a good idea but a hard core few insist that such a momentous change requires further study as it may confuse new users.
A new version of the dialogue is expected in 2037.
Re:Sad, but true: (Score:4, Funny)
Eric Allman might well agree.
Re:In related news (Score:1, Funny)
+1 Funny (but true)
POHMEL (Score:4, Funny)
Re:DRM support? In the kernel? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why another filesystem?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:DRM? (Score:3, Funny)
Doesn't Really Matter:
Democrat/Republican Madness
Devours Remaining Milkshake
Re:Why another filesystem?! (Score:5, Funny)
Uh... you just got modded as informative. Genius.
POHMELFS (Score:1, Funny)
Epecially I like this feature, which if you read it in Russian would mean in English "file system created after a good party night" - or "hangover fs" ;-)
NILFS2 is better than MILFS2 (Score:5, Funny)
NILFS2 is the successor to MILFS2, which was based on the "Mother" specification.
NILFS2 is based on the "Nanny" specification, which means it is younger, firmer, *and* keeps the child nodes quiet when you are not actively updating its data.
Re:Why another filesystem?! (Score:5, Funny)
You forgot High Sierra, ISO9660, UDF.
And WinFS. Oh, wait...
Re:2.8.x kernel soon? (Score:4, Funny)
They should just drop the 2.8. prefix. Linux 30 sounds much cooler than 2.8.30, and man it's got to be light years ahead of Windows 7!
Re:Sad, but true: (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, you COULD use Linux as an OS for a British cigarette vending machine, in which case it WOULD be for fags!
Re:2.8.x kernel soon? (Score:5, Funny)
- 2.6.<odd>: still a stable kernel, but accept bigger changes leading up
to it (timeframe: a month or two).
- 2.<odd>.x: aim for big changes that may destabilize the kernel for
several releases (timeframe: a year or two)
- <odd>.x.x: Linus went crazy, broke absolutely _everything_, and rewrote
the kernel to be a microkernel using a special message-passing version
of Visual Basic. (timeframe: "we expect that he will be released from
the mental institution in a decade or two").
ext4? (Score:4, Funny)
With Reiser in jail, the only thing you have left is to blame ext4. :)
Err, excuse me. The application developers.
Re:Why another filesystem?! (Score:5, Funny)
Can anyone explain to me why Ford has so many kinds of cars? Tesla has had a 2 seat roadster for years (admittedly, several versions, but never any compatibility issues that I've come across), and Ford has, what, 73 or something?! Is it really that hard to get it right?
Re:2.8.x kernel soon? (Score:3, Funny)
waiting for linux 3.1415
Re:Why another filesystem?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:2.8.x kernel soon? (Score:5, Funny)
... rewrote the kernel to be a microkernel using a special message-passing version of Visual Basic.
Oh, so that is what GNU/Hurd guys are up to these days!
Re:DRM? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why another filesystem?! (Score:2, Funny)
Day 3. One member expressed his distaste at the brown colour of the bricks they had to use. x teams of 10e6/x
Day 480. 10e6 bricks lie at various positions on the riverbed, all with their own SourceForge page.
No, I'm no MS fanboy. I just dumped Linux after 14 years for an Apple. It's not perfect, but OSX seems to waste the least of my time.