The 3.0 kernel is out

 

The 3.0 kernel is out

[Posted July 22, 2011 by corbet]

The 3.0 kernel is out

[Kernel] Posted Jul 22, 2011 3:12 UTC (Fri) by corbet

Linus has announced the release of the 3.0kernel. "As already mentioned several times, there are no speciallandmark features or incompatibilities related to the version numberchange, it's simply a way to drop an inconvenient numbering system in honorof twenty years of Linux. In fact, the 3.0 merge window was calmer thanmost, and apart from some excitement from RCU I'd have called it reallysmooth." Beyond the numbering scheme change, this kernel includes POSIX alarm timer support, a just-in-time compiler for BPF packet filters,a new sendmmsg() system call, ICMPsockets, the merging of the Xen backend driver (completing the long processof getting Xen Dom0 support into the kernel), namespace file descriptors, and more. See theKernelNewbies 3.0 page forlots of detail

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