Guest post by Linux 3.1 has been released. The changes include support for the OpenRISC opensource CPU, performance improvements to the writeback throttling, some speedups in the slab allocator, a new iSCSI implementation, support for Near-Field Communication chips used to enable mobile payments, bad block management in the generic software RAID layer, a new “cpupowerutils” userspace utility for power management, filesystem barriers enabled by default in Ext3, Wii Controller support and new drivers and many small improvements. Here’s the full changelog.
Great! I think it’s incredible how Linux has grown and how it still keep aligned with the lastest technologies. How sweet is to use and live with it.
The new features seems to dignify the major version number.
Need to look at this.
I was kinda hoping they’d have a Linux 3.1 for Workgroups kinda logo that looked like the Windows 3.1 logo. Maybe there is an optional patch for this already. I should go look.
Don’t you mean Linux 3.11 for workgroups?
He’s probably talking about this: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/10/24
Would’ve been cool if they really did that, but it’s probably a bit too similar to the Windows logo.
Ehehe, How long will it be when they release Linux NT then?
Nonetheless, im also happy with what they have changed and i thing Linux was long enough in the 2.x.x.x state. It matured enough to deserve the 3.
I’m not sure if Android uses a Linux kernel from official sources or if they’ve forked off the 2.x branch, but would be cool to see the Wii controller supported added
Sure, it works if a particular game or emulator supports it and/or with a separate util, but would be cool to have it baked right in.
I think they mentioned something about syncing with 3.0 during ICS keynote.
Besides, going full fork is not economically beneficial in the long term for them.
If you look at ICS screenshots, you’ll see the kernel version is 3.0.something.
Amazing work as always. Thank you Linux developers.
btdubs, if you’re looking for tarballs of 3.1, check the FTP on kernel.org:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/
The website functionality still hasn’t been completely restored yet since the hack.