Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Released

[wraggster]

The Linux kernel v2.6.31 has been released. Besides the desktop improvements and USB 3.0 support mentioned some days ago, there is an equivalent of FUSE for character devices that can be used for proxying OSS sound through ALSA, new tools for using hardware performance counters, readahead improvements, ATI Radeon KMS, Intel's Wireless Multicomm 3200 support, gcov support, a memory checker and a memory leak detector, a reimplementation of inotify and dnotify on top of a new filesystem notification infrastructure, btrfs improvements, support for IEEE 802.15.4, IPv4 over Firewire, new drivers and small improvements.

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/1156218/Linux-Kernel-2631-Released

[the_eternal_dark]

Also, support for Creative X-Fi soundcards built into the ALSA module. Finally stable enough for integration.

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