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arrive kernel 3.1 of Linux, after going through 10 RCs, and it does so with various improvements, among which the support for technology NFC and wiimotes. |
So what announced the beloved Linus Torvalds on the kernel developers message list.
In addition to what has been said, drivers of various types have been added, including audio drivers for Realtek and Broadcom Wi-Fi chips. The quality of the free driver for Nvidia has also been improved, a new implementation of iSCSI has been worked on, and support for OpenRISC has been added. Also, virtualization support has been improved and a lot of old code has been cleaned up.
If you are wondering about the famous power management bug, apparently on some sites they comment that it has been improved for various computers, but that it remains unresolved.
According to Torvalds, the basis for the next release (3.2) is settled as we work on odd versions to release the next one.
Arch Linux users will have it shortly by updating the system with:
pacman -Syu
Ubuntu 11.10 users can also download the new kernel from the corresponding PPA.