What's new in Linux 2.6.38 - the H

Much to feel faster and to the VFS (virtual filesystem) far-reaching changes more make much faster a tiny change in the process Scheduler makes systems with 2.6.38 some tasks. Some of the changes to driver code, the reference to earn belonging to wireless LAN (WLAN) driver and enhanced support for current graphic chips from AMD and NVIDIA.

Ten weeks - is, all the time, version 2.6.38 of the Linux kernel had to complete last night released the Linus Torvalds and his colleagues. The kernel was almost finished a few days ago, which concerns only to show that the kernel developers have now only about 65 to 80 days to produce a new version; a year or two, they needed in the rule about two weeks longer.

This article provides an overview of the most important changes of Linux version 2.6.38. more detailed information see the kernel logs of the "coming in 2.6.38" mini series, open that form the basis of this article published in the past few weeks on the H.

In these articles for more detailed source articles covering the important changes in each area. There is also section "Minor gems" that lists many other changes, mentioned but not in the main article, which are still important for many users.

For example in the article on driver, "Minor Gems" the numerous patches to support the video hardware on different PCs, notebooks and motherboards and listed the changes to the V4L / DVB subsystem that contains the add product names for TV hardware that the Linux kernel now recognizes.

Yet, there is no shortage of changes, such as the automatic grouping of processes within a session, which has caused a lot of excitement in the Linux world online, as it is expected to significantly increase the responsiveness of desktop environment under certain environmental conditions. The second important change concerns the virtual file system (VFS), that mediates between the code and space of the file system. Torvalds has been waiting for the integration of these patches for some time, and expressed his excitement in two e-Mails, in which he spoke about how much faster "find" in a simple file search system ran.

Some of the other changes are probably just as important for some users, such as for new graphics chips from AMD and NVIDIA graphics drivers which or the new and improved wireless LAN (WLAN) driver for Atheros, BroadcomIntel, RALink and Realtek chips. On the other hand, Server Admins probably are more interested in such things as the new SCSI target LIO and transfer steering system (XPS) package.

The following kernel log provides an overview of these and many other changes in Linux 2.6.38. Sooner or later, they influence often even Linux users compiling not the kernel itself. Future Linux distributions on kernel 2.6.38 or their successors, thus it brings improvements for users are based; For example, is 11.04, Ubuntu and Fedora 15 at the end of April and mid-May, or expected to be, both based on 2.6.38. And as usual, this Kernelprotokoll ends with a view of some changes that should be included in the next version.

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