Forgot your password?  Software Linux  Linux Kernel 2.6.24
Released 108  Posted by Soulskill from the new-toys dept.
LinuxFan writes "Linus Torvalds has released the 2.6.24 Linux
Kernel, noting that he and most of the other key Linux
developers will be flying to a conference in Australia for the
next week. As the whole team will be down under while the kernel
is being tested by the masses, Linus added, "Let's hope it's a
good one". What's new in the latest release includes an
optimized CFQ scheduler, numerous new wireless drivers, tickless
kernel support for the x86-64 and PPC architectures, and much
more. Time to download and start compiling."  Linux Kernel
2.6.24 Released  Comments Filter:   • Wow. Lots of stuff.
(Score:5, Interesting)      by MostAwesomeDude (980382) on
Friday January 25, 2008 @03:42AM (#22179056) Homepage     On one
hand, things like the VM dirty writeback adjustments and default
cpufreq frequency governors, as well as dynticks for more
arches, are big performance improvements. On the oth