[svlug] Kernel 3.0 is out

[Rick Moen]

Quoting the first part of http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0 :

Linux 3.0

Summary: Besides a new version numbering scheme, Linux 3.0 also has
several new features: Btrfs data scrubbing and automatic
defragmentation, XEN Dom0 support, unprivileged ICMP_ECHO, wake on WLAN,
Berkeley Packet Filter JIT filtering, a memcached-like system for the
page cache, a sendmmsg() syscall that batches sendmsg() calls and
setns(), a syscall that allows better handling of light virtualization
systems such as containers. New hardware support has been added: for
example, Microsoft Kinect, AMD Llano Fusion APUs, Intel iwlwifi 105 and
135, Intel C600 serial-attached-scsi controller, Ralink RT5370 USB,
several realtek rtl81xx devices or the Apple iSight webcam. Many other
drivers and small improvements have been added.

o Prominent features
  o  Btrfs: Automatic defragmentation, scrubbing, performance improvements
  o  sendmmsg(): batching of sendmsg() calls
  o  XEN dom0 support
  o  Cleancache
  o  Berkeley Packet Filter just-in-time filtering
  o  Wake on WLAN support
  o  Unprivileged ICMP_ECHO messages
  o  setns() syscall: better namespace handling
  o  Alarm-timers
o Driver and architecture-specific changes
o VFS
o Process scheduler
o Memory management
o Networking
o File systems
o Crypto
o Virtualization
o Security
o Tracing/profiling
o Various core changes