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Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, announced on September 9th the immediate availability of Linux kernel 2.6.31, a version that brings initial support for the upcoming USB 3.0 devices, Kernel Mode Setting support for ATI Radeon, initial support for NFS 4.1, and many other goodies for all Linux users around the world."What else? Lots and lots of driver work. Over 70% of all of the 2.6.30 to 2.6.31 patch is under drivers/, and there's another 6%+ in firmware/ and sound/. That's not entirely unusual, but it does seem to be growing. My rough rule of thumb used to be '50% drivers, 50% everything else,' but that's clearly not true any more (and hasn't been for a while – we've been 60%+ since after 2.6.27 – I think the whole 'staging' thing is what moved things up by several percentage points)." Linus Torvalds said in the official announcement on lkml.org.
Highlights of Linux Kernel 2.6.31:
· Support for USB 3.0;
· CUSE and OSS proxy;
· The desktop interactivity under memory pressure was improved;
· Performance counters;
· Support for IEEE 802.15.4 low-rate WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Networks);
· Support for Gcov;
· Kmemcheck;
· Kmemleak;
· Fsnotify;
· Initial suppo... (read more)"
