Linux Kernel 3.3

Linux Kernel is the essential part of Linux, responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, and basic file system management.
Linux kernel 3.3 support for the TI C6X architecture, the ability to restripe between various RAID profiles in Btrfs, as well as many network improvements.
Linux kernel 3.3 do with many improvements in various areas, such as memory management fixes, improvements of FUSE, NFSD and GFS2 filesystems, KVM and Xen improvements, and much more.

Highlights:
Support for Android;
· Improved balancing for Btrfs;
· Improved debugging tools for Btrfs;
· Restriping between different RAID levels for Btrfs;
· Open vSwitch, a multilayer network switch.;
· Better bonding of network interfaces: teaming;
· Bufferbloat fighting: Byte queue limits;
· Per-cgroup TCP buffer limits;
· Network priority control group;
· Better Ext4 online resizing;
· Support for the TI C6X architecture;
· Support for EFI boot.


The above are just a few of the new features presented in Linux kernel 3.3. For a complete list of all the newly added drivers, newly supported devices, and other improvements, view the official changelog and the Linux kernel 3.3 DriverArch page.

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