[hipl-dev] Linux 2.6.16 released
- From: Miika Komu <miika@xxxxxx>
- To: hipl-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:37:24 +0200 (EET)
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| Linux 2.6.16 released |
| from the build-the-iso-while-you-can dept. |
| posted by Hemos on Monday March 20, @09:59 (Software) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/20/141259 |
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[0]diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux 2.6.16 has been [1]released after two
months and two weeks of development. You can check the [2]comprehensible
changelog ([3]text mirror of the site). The new features include [4]OCFS2,
a clustering filesystem contributed by Oracle, new [5]unshare(),
[6]pselect()/ppoll() and *at() system calls, support the moving of the
physical location of pages between nodes in NUMA systems, support for the
Cell processor, cpufreq support for G5s plus thermal control for dualcore
G5s, improved power management support for many devices and subsystems
(libata, alsa...), a new mutex locking primitive, [7]high-resolution
timers, per-mountpoint noatime/nodiratime, 64-to-32-bit ioctl
compatibility for the v4l2 subsystem, IPv6 support for DCCP, the [8]TIPC
protocol (Transparent Inter Process Communication, ACL support for CIFS
filesystem, HFSX filesystem support, new configfs filesystem (which
complements sysfs, not replaces it), support for running executables from
v9fs (plan9 9P distributed filesystem), support for many new devices,
improved support for others and lots of other changes. Check it out from
[9]kernel.org"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=06/03/20/141259
Links:
0. mailto:diegocg@xxxxxxxxxxx
1. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/20/9
2. http://wiki.kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
3.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:IT1X2f-H0yUJ:wiki.kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges+&lr=&strip=1
4. http://lwn.net/Articles/137278/
5. http://lwn.net/Articles/135321/
6. http://lwn.net/Articles/164887/
7. http://lwn.net/Articles/167897
8. http://tipc.sourceforge.net/
9. http://www.kernel.org/
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