 Ahoy! She's good to go, hoist anchor! Here's some real booty for all you
land-lubbers. There's not too many changes, with t'bulk of the patch bein'
defconfig updates, but the shortlog at the aft of this here email describes the
details if you care, you scurvy dogs." -- Linus "but you can call me Cap'n.
This might not
be a typical way to announce the release of a new Linux kernel. But perhaps in
the spirit of Talk Like a Pirate Day,
Linus Torvalds did just that in a mailing-list posting announcing the release of
the 2.6.18 kernel.
The 2.6.18
kernel includes a long list of functional updates and improvements. Perhaps the
largest volume of work surrounds improvements to how Linux handles serial ATA (SATA).
SATA is rapidly
emerging as a low cost complement in enterprise storage systems in cases where
the robustness of Fibre channel is not required.
SELinux also
gets some improvements in the new kernel. SELinux was first
developed by
the NSA as a way to improve security in Linux by introducing mandatory
access controls.
New per-packet
networking controls called secmark are now in the kernel.
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