Spam: Ulrich Drepper, the libc maintainer, has published a must-read paper about "What every programmer should know about memory" Linux kernel version 2.6.24 Released 24 January 2008 (full SCM git log) 1. Short overview (for news sites, etc) 2.6.24 includes CPU "group scheduling", memory fragmentation avoidance, tickless support for x86-64/ppc and other architectures, many new wireless drivers and