What's new in the Linux kernel
Ben Hutchings
Ben Hutchings
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Professional software engineer by day, Debian developer by night
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Regular Linux contributor in both roles since 2008
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Maintaining a net driver in my day job, plus core networking
and PCI code as necessary
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Debian kernel team member, now doing most of the unstable
maintenance aside from ports
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Maintaining Linux 3.2.y stable update series on
kernel.org
Linux releases early and often
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Linux is released about 5 times a year (plus stable updates
every week or two)
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For 'wheezy' we chose to freeze with Linux 3.2, which was
getting pretty old by the time of release
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Good news: we have lots of new kernel features in testing/unstable
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Bad news: some of them won't really work without new userland
Questions?
Credits
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Linux 'Tux' logo © Larry Ewing, Simon Budig.
- Modified by Ben to add Debian open-ND logo
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Debian open-ND logo © Software in the Public Interest, Inc.