Advanced

Linux Kernel 3.0 Released, Adds Support for Microsoft Kinect

Posted by hanuca on · 1 comment
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
Mail this story
Print this story

Finally! We are proud to announce today, July 22nd, the immediate availability for download of the highly anticipated Linux kernel 3.0, announced by its father, Linus Torvalds.

Among the new features included in Linux kernel 3.0 we can mention Btrfs data scrubbing and automatic defragmentation, Berkeley Packet Filter JIT filtering, unprivileged ICMP_ECHO, XEN Dom0 support, wake on WLAN, lots of new drivers and support for many hardware components.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Kernel

» Get new stories by e-mail: nightly or as they are published

« Return to the newswire homepage

  Related stories
» More like this

Comments (1)

I uploaded kernel 3.0 to the development repo at Fuduntu not long ago, should be in testing over the weekend, and if there aren't any major issues, stable sometime next week. :)

Post a comment

A free account is needed to post. Write your comment here first: your text is kept in this browser while you sign up or log in, and is waiting for you when you come back.

Your message:
|||||
10
Markdown: **bold**, *italic*, [text](https://link), - lists, > quotes, $x^2$ for math. Formatting help

Sign up and post (it is free)  or  Log in and post