After a few weeks delay due to a security breach at the kernel.org
website, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 3.1 update which
brings with it a range of new features. The new Linux version took
around 3 months to develop and includes
enhancements that improve the
speed or
expand the capabilities of both the KVM and Xen virtualisation systems.
Linux 3.1 adds support for the open
source OpenRISC CPU architecture, near-field communication (NFC),
dynamic writeback throttling, a new iSCSI implementation as well as
Nintendo’s Wii controller.
An overview of these and other advances in the kernel, and a look at
upcoming changes in Linux kernel 3.2, is available in an article on
The H Open: What’s new in Linux 3.1
