The Debian-based Linux distribution, sidux 2011-03 is available in version with updated software.
In the new kernel release puts 3.1, provides support for new hardware. He also reduced latencies in the operation of SSDs with LVM2/Mdadm. Other enhancements include Xen with dom0 and PCI passthrough and nested virtualization with KVM. The software inventory comes from Debian unstable (Sid) and dated 31 December 2011.
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Red Hat’s Fedora community Linux is released in version 16, code-named “Verne”.
While the nickname on the French author Jules Verne refers to developers, the new version specifically dedicated to the recently deceased inventor of Unix, Dennis Ritchie.
Fedora 16 comes with Gnome 3.2 and KDE 4.7 fresh versions of desktop environments. The system also kernel 3.1 and put Grub second The Ext-4 driver is new in Fedora for the file systems Ext 2 and 3 charge. The developers SysVinit some scripts have to be ported to version 15 introduced Systemd init system.
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Shortly before the planned publication of the final version of the openSUSE developers ask to test the release candidate 2 for OpenSuse 12.1.
According to roadmap the release date is on 16 November onwards.
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Two months after the Linux 3.0 kernel is version 3.1 of the publication is almost ready, but will probably only appear in a month.
The culprit is the continued non-availability of kernel.org in combination with the upcoming holiday of Linus Torvalds.
Two months is the release of Linux 3.0 kernel and now back to 3.1 which is currently in version 3.1-rc7 available, is almost ready for publication. By eight weeks of development or rather testing time it could have been a fairly quick release. But since the burglary at kernel.org kernel.org is not available in late August and will persist for some days. Although probably was introduced at the break no malicious code, but the administrators want in this regard from kernel.org and make sure everything verified.
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Linux initiator Linus Torvalds has released version 3.1-rc1 kernel as the first test version for Linux 3.1. The kernel now supports OpenRISC architecture.
Linux 3.1-rc1 contains over 7600 changes, a similar number as in version 3.0. About 2000 will come to experience, up to the release in about two months. Nearly three-quarters of all changes were new or updated drivers. The slow but steady increase in the driver’s share of the changes is explained by the fact that the actual extent of the kernel only by the occasional new features is growing, and file systems and architectures are added less frequently. New hardware, new or enhanced driver requires, however, there are nonstop.
The kernel now supports OpenRISC architecture , an architecture that is being developed as open-source project. In the ARM architecture, many cleanups have been made to eliminate the code duplication gradually got out of hand.
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