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Linux 2.6.37 Released 135

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @04:59PM from the new-and-improved dept.

diegocg writes "Version 2.6.37 of the Linux kernel has been released. This version includes SMP scalability improvements for Ext4 and XFS, the removal of the Big Kernel Lock, support for per-cgroup IO throttling, a networking block device based on top of the Ceph clustered filesystem, several Btrfs improvements, more efficient static probes, perf support to probe modules, LZO compression in the hibernation image, PPP over IPv4 support, several networking microoptimizations and many other small changes, improvements and new drivers for devices like the Brocade BNA 10GB ethernet, Topcliff PCH gigabit, Atheros CARL9170, Atheros AR6003 and RealTek RTL8712U. The fanotify API has also been enabled. See the full changelog for more details."

Comment Is there a market for this? (Score 1) 114

by Constantine on Wednesday June 28, 2000 @03:06AM (#971789) Attached to: Baan IVc/V - The First Open-Source ERP?

AFAIK ERP is a very expensive solution that only large corporations can afford. I am not talking about the licensing costs, but mainly about the consultancy/integration cost to set it up, and then maintenance & support costs.

Professionals who specialise in ERP are like gold dust, probably the most higly paid IT people out there.

Who would need an Open Source ERP solution? The amount saved by licensing is probably negligible compared to the total cost. I suppose it never hurts if we have more Open Source software, but in this particular case I am not sure if there will be any benefits either.

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