Kernel 3.3 released

[viking60]

Summary: This release features as the most important change the merge of kernel code from the Android project. But there is more, it also includes support for a new architecture (TI C6X), much improved balancing and the ability to restripe between different RAID profiles in Btrfs, and several network improvements: a virtual switch implementation (Open vSwitch) designed for virtualization scenarios, a faster and more scalable alternative to the "bonding" driver, a configurable limit to the transmission queue of the network devices to fight bufferbloat, a network priority control group and per-cgroup TCP buffer limits. There are also many small features and new drivers and fixes are also available

More here...

[dedanna1029]

Question, why is it that most distro devels refuse to release the latest? I found this with Mandriva, with SuSe, and now Linux Mint:

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.:[ dedanna@dedanna : 08:43:21 : ~/Documents ]:.
:) uname -r
3.0.0-19-generic

[viking60]

I guess it involves some work to package a distro, making sound etc work. Once they are finished they need to rest for 6 months. In Arch the kernel comes pretty fast. Once in a while that can break stuff like wifi in my case - (problem with ath drivers). There will be a solution in the forum to fix it pretty fast.
What I did was to install the LTS kernel, so whenever I get an unlikely problem with the new kernel I can fall back to LTS during boot.