Less than two and a half months have passed since the previous version, and Linus Torvalds has announced the rosters for the Linux kernel developers Linux 3.2 kernel available , a new version that is “pretty happy” and adds some curious developments in the almost (grazing) 15 million lines of code.

These include improvements in support Ext4 filesystem (with blocks of 4 Kbytes to 1 Mbyte and available), and also for the best options Btrfs support.

affect the process scheduler in situations with many memory writes, improving the TCP protocol to retrieve the connection in case of lost packets, and improvements in other areas such as Device Mapper or support new architectures, such as Hexagon DSP processor from Qualcomm.

completely changes have in Kernel Newbies (right now does not load, it usually happens in every release of a stable kernel), but lately I prefer to read me explanations of Thorsten Leemhuis in The H Open : this writer has long done an analysis of different versions of the kernel, and technical articles are simply fantastic.

You have

two essential resources at your disposal from The H Open . In this short story and then link with the five reports that were before the launch of the kernel, in which discussed in detail the changes in connectivity, file systems, architecture, infrastructure and controllers. In the second Leemhuis looks at bringing together all those previous articles also detailed in a report.

And as always, the kernel is available for download on kernel.org (after the scares of the past few months)-and also thanks to GitHub Linus has created there, in case you Animais to compile it for your respective distributions. A good gift premature Their Majesties the Kings:)