Next Linux Kernel Due Early March

swandives writes "The Linux.conf.au is in full-swing in Wellington, New Zealand, and Computerworld Australia has an interview with Jon Corbet in the leadup to his Kernel Report. The latest kernel release is due early March and will include reversed-engineered drivers for Nvidia chipsets."

Year of the linux desktop

[Anonymous Coward]

So this is the year of the linux desktop? Yeehaw kernel 2.7!

Re:Year of the linux desktop

[sjalexander]

yeah, but it's 7 PM tomorrow, so it doesn't count.

Re:huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

we annexed them a decade ago, but they haven't realized yet...

Re:It's official

[tonyr60]

I think you will find that it is the other way around. We even have Royalty here to endorse addition of the West Island to the kingdom of New Zealand.

Re:It's official

[MichaelSmith]

More of a sand bank than a proper island. The average chunk of NZ is, what? 10cm across? Over here you are lucky to find grains > 1mm.

But we are slowly winning. After our circuit around south island in 2008 my wife and son insisted on bringing back five or ten kilos of "interesting rocks". Customs in Melbourne nearly had a fit. Another million years and the top metre of NZ will be features in Australian back yards.

3D

[Lord Lode]

If those NVidia drivers don't support hardware accelerated 3D, then I really don't understand the point. 3D hardware acceleration is 15 years old. Linux is an operating system that should be at the frontline of technology. Working in the dark ages of pre-3D acceleration, the times of Motif GUI's, should be far past us. How can something that ignores such an important part of the graphics card, almost half the computation power of the whole computer is there, be accepted?

If they do support 3D, then congratulations, ignore my post above :)

Re:huh?

[BrokenHalo]

All new zealand has is rubber boots.

And sheep. Never forget the sheep... ;-D

The Kernel Report

[Kikuchi]

Hello Nation. If I had a quarter for every time I said I had a nickel, I'd have five times as much theoretical money. This Is the Kernel Report!

Re:3D

[Lord Lode]

Well I wasn't trying to be funny...

Re:Linux Kernel? Not important. Linux Scheduler?

[ckaminski]

Oh please. The Windows kernel is arguably one of the better kernels ever written.

All the rest of the crap on top of it, not so much...