Linux Kernel Updated.

Now why would a site that covers the broadband scene care about this? Speed. Cheaper development.

The latest kernel 2.2.26 has three items going for it —

1) Improvements in the KVM module. It now supports the base line for paravirtualization.

2) The native chipset speed in a virtual environment.

3) Preliminary support for 802.11s wireless mesh networking.

That means the boys in the labs are going to start looking at multicore multidrop routers not bound by single cpu threads. It also means that some other engineers will be working on a multicore multiband mesh wireless system in linux. Enough to test the bandwidth processor capabilities.

More at InfoQ.