[dba-Tech] New Linux

Compiling your own kernel is a bit of a pain, unless you really need it. And it will be many years before 3.7 ends up on most distros by default though. Debian, my favorite distro, is especially particular about this, since the emphasis in Debian is to have a stable operating system. So they are quite a few versions behind. I haven't checked recently, but I'm pretty sure the latest Debian (6.0) is still on Linux kernel 2.x.

But, wow, 3.7 already eh? It took over a decade to get from 2.0 to 3.0 and now we are on 3.7 already after a year? Linus Torvalds must be drinking a lot of espresso these days. :|

- Hans




On 2012-12-11, at 12:19 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Linux 3.7 has been officially released as the tenth of the month, yesterday.
> 
> This release adds support for the new ARM 64-bit architecture, ARM
> multiplatform - the ability to boot into different ARM systems using a
> single kernel; support for cryptographically signed kernel modules; Btrfs
> (B-tree file system) support for disabling copy-on-write on a per-file basis
> using chattr; faster Btrfs fsync(); a new experimental 'perf trace' tool
> modeled after strace; support for the TCP Fast Open feature in the server
> side; experimental SMBv2 protocol support; stable NFS 4.1 and parallel NFS;
> a vxlan tunneling protocol that allows to transfer Layer 2 ethernet packets
> over UDP; and support for the Intel SMAP security feature...and so on and so
> on.
> 
> http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.7
> 
> This make Linux the single most advanced secure/fastest/stablist OS on the
> planet. But it will probably be a while before it is incorpoated into all
> the stanard distros. Some unofficials hacks attaching the Linix 3.7 to
> Debian and then to Ubuntu 12.4 are already being produced but I understand
> you would have to do the compile yourself.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds
> 
> Jim 
> 
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