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Linux 2.6.34 Released 268

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 17, 2010 @05:10AM from the fresh-bits dept.

diegocg writes "Linux 2.6.34 has been released. This version adds two new filesystem, the distributed filesystem Ceph and LogFS, a filesystem for flash devices. Other features are a driver for almost-native KVM network performance, the VMware balloon driver, the 'kprobes jump' optimization for dynamic probes, new perf features (the 'perf lock' tool, cross-platform analysis support), several Btrfs improvements, RCU lockdep, Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (RFC 5082) and private VLAN proxy arp (RFC 3069) support, asynchronous suspend/resume, several new drivers and many other small improvements. See the full changelog here."

Linux 2.6.27 Out 452

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 09, 2008 @11:58PM from the not-all-fancy-like-gnu dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux 2.6.27 has been released. It adds a new filesystem (UBIFS) for 'pure' flash-based storage, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O scalability and performance, delayed allocation support for ext4, multiqueue networking, data integrity support in the block layer, a function tracer, a mmio tracer, sysprof support, improved webcam support, support for the Intel wifi 5000 series and RTL8187B network cards, a new ath9k driver for the Atheros AR5008 and AR9001 chipsets, more new drivers, and many other improvements and fixes. Full list of changes can be found here."

The DRM Scorecard 543

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @08:26PM from the guess-who's-ahead dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InfoWeek blogger Alex Wolfe put together a scorecard which makes the obvious but interesting point that, when you list every major DRM technology implemented to "protect" music and video, they've all been cracked. This includes Apple's FairPlay, Microsoft's Windows Media DRM, the old-style Content Scrambling System (CSS) used on early DVDs and the new AACS for high-definition DVDs. And of course there was the Sony Rootkit disaster of 2005. Can anyone think of a DRM technology which hasn't been cracked, and of course this begs the obvious question: Why doesn't the industry just give up and go DRM-free?"

Comment A nice summary of Alston's career.... (Score 1) 175

by ken.quach on Monday September 29, 2003 @09:32AM (#7084025) Attached to: Spam And Alston - From Luddite To Pin-Up?

... is nicely summarised at Whirlpool.

Highlights:

* Initially dismissing broadband as a gaming platform

* Calling a country-wide broadband rollout a "costly waste of time"
* Decreeing that consumers should be kept in the dark about their phone line
* Linking the takeup of broadband to pornography
* Allowing his department to spend $4,000,000 on a small and poorly developed website

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