{"id":151617,"date":"2016-01-11T08:09:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T06:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=151617"},"modified":"2016-01-11T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T06:11:00","slug":"linux-kernel-4-4-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/151617-linux-kernel-4-4-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux kernel 4.4 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linux kernel 4.4 LTS (Long-Term Support) was officially released by Linus Torvalds and his team of developers on 10 January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1601.1\/01592.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Torvalds wrote in a post<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that \u201cnothing untoward happened this week, so Linux 4.4 is out in all the usual places\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A slashdot user highlighted that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=linux-44-features&amp;num=1\" target=\"_blank\">prominent features of Linux kernel 4.4 LTS<\/a><\/strong> included 3D support in the virtual GPU driver &#8211; allowing for 3D hardware-accelerated graphics in virtualization guests.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Linux kernel also offers a leaner and faster loop device that supports Asynchronous I\/O and Direct I\/O &#8211; increasing the system&#8217;s performance and saving memory &#8211; and support for Open-Channel SSDs through LightNVM.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Linux<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/145899-linux-encryption-ransomware-hacked-how-to-get-your-files-back.html\">Linux encryption ransomware hacked \u2013 how to get your files back<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/145543-new-encryption-ransomware-targets-linux-servers.html\"><strong>New encryption ransomware targets Linux servers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux kernel 4.4 LTS has been released by Linus Torvalds and his team of developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":136880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,12605,1799],"class_list":["post-151617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-linus-torvalds","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151625,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151617\/revisions\/151625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}