Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Linux 2.6.27 is out
Hey, the famous linux kernel project made a new release.
This time it’s the 2.6.27 one. You might be interested by the mail announcement (by Torvalds).
The human readable changelog for kernelnewbies is available here.
It quotes some features that are really interesting in this release :
- ext4 delayed allocation support
- lockless page cache (useful if you have lots of CPUs)
- kexec/kdump based hibernation (could provide reliable hibernation even for fucked up ACPI systems in the future !)
- UBIFS filesystem for flash based devices. (useful for flash devices where FAT filesystem lock can be disabled)
- read-time corruption detection
- improved video camera support with the gspca driver (perhaps it’s the time to try that webcam again)
- Details omitted. More to come, I guess.
Finally, you might want to rant about something on the dedicated slashdot thread. More information is obviously available at the right places of the world wide fucked web.