open linux

The H Open: Linux 3.1 comes with all the components that are required for using the 3D acceleration features of various current GeForce graphics chips.

The H Open: "Linux 2.6.38 contains patches to improve the scalability of VFS that has been the topic of much discussion for the past six months and that Torvalds himself was waiting for.

Ext3 and XFS now support batched discard, which is interesting for SSDs, while Btrfs and SquashFS support additional compression technologies."

The H Open: "Linux 2.6.33 will have new and improved drivers for Wi-Fi chips by Intel, Ralink and Realtek.

Several drivers for old Wi-Fi hardware have been moved to the staging area and will probably soon be discarded."

The H Open: "Linux 2.6.31 will support USB 3.0, although the corresponding hardware is not yet available.

Distributions are to use the new FireWire stack that now offers LAN support."

The H Open: "Linux 2.6.31 will offer Kernel-Based Mode-Setting for Radeon graphics cards up to model X1950.

The developers have included new drivers for X-Fi sound cards and for Intel's "Next-Generation Graphics Device""

The H Open: "Linux 2.6.31 will be IEEE 802.15.4 capable and will include a new Wi-Fi driver for Intel chips.

Developers have also added support for recent Ralink Wi-Fi components and revamped the Rfkill framework."