Linux 3.8 Released 120
diegocg writes "Linux kernel 3.8 has been released. This release includes support in Ext4 for embedding very small files in the inode, which greatly improves the performance for these files and saves some disk space. There is also a new Btrfs feature that allows for quick disk replacement, a new filesystem F2FS optimized for SSDs; support for filesystem mount, UTS, IPC, PID, and network namespaces for unprivileged users; accounting of kernel memory in the memory resource controller; journal checksums in XFS; an improved NUMA policy redesign; and, of course, the removal of support for 386 processors. Many small features and new drivers and fixes are also available. Here's the full list of changes."
Re:I'm confused (Score:5, Informative)
0.01 - 1991
1.0 - 1994
1.2 - 1955
1.3 - 1995
2.0 - 1996
2.1 - 1996
2.2 - 1999
2.3 - 1999
2.4 - 2001
2.5 - 2001
2.6 - 2003
3.0 - 2011
3.2 - 2012
Of course, there were many smaller version numbers released in the meantime - 2.4.37.11 was released in 2011, ten years after 2.4.0.
Re:still supports 32-bit Intel binaries (Score:2, Informative)
Specifically the actual i386 family is no longer supported. The i486 family, including the 486SX (which doesn't even have floating point) are still technically supported by the Linux kernel, you just won't find very much software to run on them. So we're not just talking "before the Pentium" but further back in history. There are i486 PCs dating back to 1989, think Dead Poets Society. So Linux still runs on hardware that's older than Linux, just not hardware that was already /cheap/ when Linux began.
Re:still supports 32-bit Intel binaries (Score:4, Informative)
Re:F2FS is not for SSDs (Score:3, Informative)