السلام عليكــم ورحمـة الله وبركاتــه ،،
None other than Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, announced last evening the immediate availability of Linux kernel 2.6.29, a version that brings initial support for the highly expected Brtfs filesystem. Brtfs is a brand new filesystem created by Chris Mason and designed to act like the ZFS or WAFL ones. When Brtfs will be stable, it will definitely replace the Ext filesystem!
Moreover, starting with this release, the Tux Penguin logo was temporarily replaced by the new Tuz logo (see it in the left image), because Linus Torvalds thinks we should all contribute to Save The
"The most obvious change is the (temporary) change of logo to Tuz, the Tasmanian Devil. But there's a number of driver updates and some m68k header updates (fixing headers_install after the merge of non-MMU/MMU) that end up being pretty noticeable in the diffs." - said Linus Torvalds in the official release announcement.
Highlights of Linux Kernel 2.6.29:
· Kernel Modesetting
· Btrfs Filesystem
· SquashFS 4.0
· 4096 CPU Support
· "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU
· WiMAX Support
· Wireless Access Point mode support
· eCryptfs filename encryption
· Filesystem freeze
· Memory controller swap management and various improvements
· Ext4 no journal mode
· OCFS2 metadata checksums
· Staging drivers
· Tuz replaces Tux for this release, as the logo
"This obviously starts the merge window for 2.6.30, although as usual, I'll probably wait a day or two before I start actively merging. I do that in order to hopefully result in people testing the final plain 2.6.29 a bit more before all the crazy changes start up again." - ended Linus Torvalds the announcement for Linux kernel 2.6.29.
