Download Linux Kernel 2.6.38

On Monday, version 2.6.38 of the Linux Kernel was released. The kernel is the heart of the operating system and, simply put, it sits as a layer between the hardware and the applications. In version 2.6.38 we find, among other things, the possibility to automatically group processes, there is the Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networking or batman mesh protocol and support for Amd Fusion graphics processors.

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This release adds support for an automatic process grouping (called “the wonder patch” in the news), significant scalability improvements in the VFS, Btrfs LZO compression and read-only snapshots, support for the BATMAN mesh protocol (which helps to provide network connectivity in the presence of natural disasters, military conflicts or Internet censorship), transparent Huge Page support (without using hugetblfs), support for the AMD Fusion APUs, many drivers and other changes.

• Prominent features (the cool stuff)
  • Automatic process grouping (aka “the patch that does wonders”)
  • VFS scalability: scaling the directory cache
  • Btrfs LZO compression, read-only snapshots
  • Transparent Huge Pages
  • BATMAN Mesh protocol
  • Support for AMD Fusion Graphics
• Drivers and architectures
• core
• CPU scheduler
• Memory management
• block
• File systems
• Networking
• crypto
• Virtualization
• Security
• tracing/perfect