Linux 2.6.17 Released

diegocgteleline.es writes "After almost three months, Linux 2.6.17 has been released. The changes include support for Sun Niagara CPUs, a new I/O mechanism called 'splice' which can improve the performance greatly for some applications, a scheduler domain optimized for multicore machines, driver for the widely used broadcom 43xx wifi chip (Apple's Airport Extreme and such), iptables support for the H.323 protocol, CCID2 support for DCCP, softmac layer for the wireless stack, block queue IO tracing, and many other changes listed at the changelog"

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[Anonymous Coward]

But does it run linux ???

what

[Anonymous Coward]

is this for computers?

Re:Video Editing?

[Anonymous Coward]

Final Cut Pro on OS X is my guess, at least if he's doing anything new and interesting. It's widely known that Windows- and Linux-based nonlinear editing tools are designed for accountants and squares.

In case of slashdot, break mirror

[TrueKonrads]

Changelog [mirrordot.org]

Re:Video Editing?

[daft_one]

*Jesus and I* pity your grammar. ;-)

Sounds good

[goodenoughnickname]

Sounds good -- how much does it cost?

Sincerely,
The New Guy

Re:Nice

[Frogbert]

2.6.16! You're crazy. I'm still holding back on 2.4.10 until the dust settles.

Re:Great, how about stable firewire support someda

[Solra Bizna]

The above comment has been marked WORKSFORME, and is now closed.

-:sigma.SB

Re:Sounds good

[Anonymous Coward]

Not much, only all your social life :D

Re:Go Linux!

[jrockway]

> A real macro system and overloading would probably be nice for kernel dev.s everywhere.

Like LISP? That's what they used to use, but C was chosen for UNIX, and UNIX caught on big time, so C is the language now. I think it's about time to write an OS (kernel + tools) in LISP, so we can return to the good-old-days of Lisp machines.

a new bug...

[Anonymous Coward]

... has been released! btw, i thought they were gonna release 2.6.16.61.23.2344_34.

Re:Video Editing?

[peterpi]

split, cat and sed.

Re:Video Editing?

[zsau]

Using a graphical editor? I edit my videos by converting them to a series of jpeg images (one per frame) and using ed to edit them! Damn efficient, quality results.