Kernel 2.6.25

Rilasciata dagli sviluppatori di kernel.org la nuova versione del kernel Linux, giunto alla major release 2.6.25

I sorgenti vanilla sono naturalmente disponibili su www.kernel.org, mentre le novità principali si possono trovare in un formato “leggibile” su kernelnewbies.org, eccone un breve estratto

2.6.25 includes support of a new architecture (MN10300/AM33) and the widely used Orion SoCs, a new interface for more accurate measurement of process memory usage, a ‘memory resource controller’ for controlling the memory usage of groups of processes, realtime group scheduling, a tool for measuring high latencies called latencytop, ACPI thermal regulation, timer event notifications through file descriptors, an alternative MAC security framework called SMACK, a ext4 update, BRK and PIE-executable address space randomization, RCU preemption support, FIFO spinlocks in x86, EFI support in x86-64, a new network protocol called CAN, initial ATI r500 DRI/DRM support, improved device support and many other small improvements.