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Eight IT Predictions for 2010
http://www.rpath.com/corp/predictions
FOSS: How Did 2009 Shape Up?
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| A major release of the Linux kernel happens
| every three months, which means this year has
| seen four new versions. Of course, not all of
| these will see major circulation as most
| distros only release every six months.
| Typically every second or third release makes
| it into the major distributions. Version
| 2.6.32 was released just two weeks ago, but
| it wonât actually make it to most distros.
| Nevertheless, most of the major features do
| make it onto the desktop, eventually.
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| This past year has seen some amazing new work
| enter the kernel. Perhaps the most work
| centered around file systems with the
| introduction of Btrfs, SquashFS, FUSE, EXOFS
| and NILFS2 into mainline. For the majority of
| distributions, the new Ext4 file system has
| become the default (although it was not
| without its problems).
|
| Graphics architecture was re-worked which
| caused no end of issues for most machines
| with an Intel graphics card. Kernel-based
| mode setting (KMS) was introduced including
| support for Intel and Radeon cards. With
| 2.6.33 on the way the Nouveau driver for
| NVIDIA cards has just been merged into the
| mainline staging tree. Linux was also the
| first kernel to gain support for USB 3.0,
| although there are no consumer devices widely
| available yet.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7650/1.html
Recent:
Kernel Log: New stable kernels, 2.6.33 with DRBD and RT2800PCI
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| Kernel versions 2.6.27.40, 2.6.27.41 and
| 2.6.31.7 offer minor improvements and correct
| several bugs â including one security hole.
| Torvalds has already incorporated more than
| 5,000 changes for Linux 2.6.33. Its merge
| window will probably be open for just over
| another week. Various developers are working
| on significant improvements to the open source
| Radeon graphics drivers.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Kernel-Log-New-stable-kernels-2-6-33-with-DRBD-and-RT2800PCI-883212.html
A Great Present In The Linux 2.6.33 Kernel
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| David Airlie has just called upon Linus
| Torvalds to pull in the latest DRM patches
| for inclusion into the Linux 2.6.33 kernel.
| The Direct Rendering Manager improvements in
| this next kernel release will be
| particularly interesting and are perhaps as
| significant as earlier kernels that had
| introduced kernel mode-setting support for
| Intel and ATI/AMD hardware along with in-
| kernel memory management. The changes that
| the Linux 2.6.33 kernel will bring are
| aplenty and will impact almost all of those
| using an open-source graphics driver stack.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc4OQ
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