Download Linux Kernel 2.6.16

Linus Torvalds has released another fresh Linux Kernel, this time with a version number of 2.6.16. The full list of changes is up this page in original form to read and op this page a neat summary of this wall of text can be found here. The highlights of version 2.6.16 include support for the Cell processor and the HFSX filesystem. The highlights list looks like this:

Overview:

• OCFS2a clustering filesystem contributed by Oracle (there’s GFS from Red Hat who bought it from Sistina Software, shipped out-of-the-tree for now)
• new unshare() ( pselect()/ppoll() and *at() system calls (http://lwn.net/Articles/164887/)
• support the moving of the physical location of pages between nodes in NUMA systems
• support for the Cell processor
• cpufreq support for G5s plus thermal control for dual core G5s
• improved power management support for many devices and subsystems (libata, alsa…)
• mutex locking primitive
• high resolution timers (http://lwn.net/Articles/167897)
• per-mountpoint noatime/nodiratime
• 64-to-32-bit ioctl compatibility for the v4l2 subsystem
• IPv6 support for DCCP
• New TIPC protocol (Transparent Inter Process Communication, used for intra-clustering communication
• ACL support for CIFS file system
• HFSX file system support
• new configfs filesystem (which complements sysfs, not replaces it)
• support for running executables from v9fs (plan9 9P distributed filesystem)
• support for many new devices, improved support and features for others and lots of other changes.

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