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The Ext4 filesystem, which was officially declared stable in Linux kernel 2.6.28, is now available in the latest Ubuntu 9.04 daily CD builds. Preliminary benchmarks show that it delivers significantly better performance.

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Version 2.6 of the Linux kernel was released in late 2003 and since then the developers have stuck with the 2.6.x.y version numbering. It’s been five years with the stable Linux 2.6 kernel, but a proposal has been made on the Linux kernel mailing list to change this scheme. No, a Linux 2.8 kernel isn’t secretly in the works, […]
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Version 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel has officially been released. The new version includes the ath9k wireless driver, the UBIFS filesystem for flash-based devices, and improved webcam support.
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Linus Torvalds quietly released another update to the Linux kernel over the weekend that offers better support for kernel-based virtual machines, a kernel debugger, improved webcam support and new support for the One Laptop Per Child architecture.
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