New version of the Linux Kernel, 2.6.33

Alejandro (a.k.a KZKG^Gaara)

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 Linus Torvalds hours ago released the new version of the Linux Kernel, it is version 2.6.33, which is estimated to be valued at 1.000.000.000 Euros.

Among the improvements and novelties, the including DRM code for Nouveau video driverMany KMS driver improvements for Radeon and DRM for VMware. Overall, many improvements when it comes to graphics cards and DRM.
There are several improvements in ALSA, support for temperature monitoring for AMD K10 ICs and several new drivers; there are some performance improvements for EXT4 and Btrfs; the entry / exit organizer (I / O scheduler) AS disappears (almost nobody used it and we are supposed to use CFQ).
You can download the source code (63,2 Mbytes) from the legendary official site kernel.org, which has an extensive changelog.
Those who want to know in depth the changes, can read the series they have made in H-Online and that allows you to discover the secrets of the kernel in parts, namely:
  1. Networking
  2. Storage
  3. Graphics
  4. Architecture and virtualization
  5. Drivers

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