Linux 3.8

Linux 3.8 was released in February of 2013 with the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) along with improvements to the Btrfs and EXT4 file-systems. Linux 3.8 additionally features automatic NUMA balancing and support for i386 CPUs was dropped.

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Linux 3.8 Articles & Reviews

Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10   Software   17 May 2013
32-bit vs. 64-bit Ubuntu 13.04 Linux Performance   Operating Systems   25 Apr 2013
Western Digital RE4 1TB SATA Enterprise HDD   Storage   11 Mar 2013
F2FS File-System Shows Hope, Runs Against Btrfs &...   Software   18 Feb 2013
F2FS Results Mixed Against Microsoft's exFAT On Linux   Software   06 Mar 2013
NILFS2: A Slow But Dependable Linux File-System   Software   24 Feb 2013
Linux 3.8 File-System Testing From A SATA 3.0 HDD   Storage   27 Feb 2013
Nouveau Driver Remains Much Slower Than NVIDIA's...   Display Drivers   04 Jan 2013
F2FS File-System Runs Great On SDHC Storage   Software   21 Feb 2013
EXT4 Still Leads Over Btrfs File-System On Linux 3.8   Software   14 Feb 2013
Linux 3.2 To 3.8 Kernels With Intel Ivy Bridge...   Display Drivers   27 Jan 2013
AMD Radeon Performance Preview On Linux 3.8   Display Drivers   14 Dec 2012
Early Benchmark Preview Of The Linux 3.8 Kernel   Software   03 Jan 2013
NVIDIA GeForce 600 "Kepler" On Open-Source:...   Display Drivers   08 Jan 2013
Nouveau NVIDIA Driver Can Be Faster With Linux 3.8   Display Drivers   02 Jan 2013
Five-Way NVIDIA GeForce Comparison On Nouveau   Display Drivers   11 Jan 2013
Intel Core i7 Haswell Benchmarks On Linux 3.12   Software   14 Oct 2013
Linux 3.1 To Linux 3.8 Radeon DRM Benchmarks   Display Drivers   22 Feb 2013

Linux 3.8 Linux News

Recapping All The Interesting Talks Of XDC2014   X.Org   12 Oct 2014
The 3.8 Kernel Is An Amazing Gift To Linux Users   Linux Kernel   15 Dec 2012
Benchmarking Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel   Oracle   03 Dec 2013
Five Years Later, Intel Poulsbo Is Still A Linux Mess   Intel   15 Mar 2013
The Feature Overview For The Linux 3.8 Kernel   Linux Kernel   24 Dec 2012
Top Features For The Linux 3.9 Kernel   Linux Kernel   28 Feb 2013
The Linux 3.8 Kernel Can Save A Lot Of RAM   Linux Kernel   13 Dec 2012
Google Working On Android Based On Linux 3.8   Google   27 Feb 2013
Using zRAM On Ubuntu 13.04 Linux   Ubuntu   21 Apr 2013
Native Linux Kernel Module Is Out For Microsoft exFAT   Microsoft   25 Jun 2013
Ubuntu Linux Considers Greater Usage Of zRAM   Ubuntu   08 Dec 2012
Benchmarking The Intel P-State, CPUfreq Changes   Intel   19 May 2013
Assessing The Current Intel Haswell Linux Experience   Intel   21 Jun 2013
Linux Kernel Exploit Affecting Linux 3.3 To Linux 3.8   Linux Kernel   25 Feb 2013
Features On The Horizon For The Linux 3.8 Kernel   Linux Kernel   27 Oct 2012
AMD Has Open-Source Driver For HD 8000 Series   AMD   04 Feb 2013
VIA Kernel Mode-Setting Still Not Ready For Mainline   VIA   11 Nov 2012
Linux Kernel Drops Support For Old Intel 386 CPUs   Linux Kernel   12 Dec 2012
F2FS File-System Merged Into Linux 3.8 Kernel   Linux Storage   22 Dec 2012
Linux Can Work On The 2013 MacBook Air   Hardware   25 Aug 2013
Linux Benchmarks Of Intel's Quark X1000 On The Galileo...   Intel   09 Mar 2014
VIA Kernel Mode-Setting Still Being Toyed With   VIA   16 Feb 2013
Features You Won't Find In The Linux 3.9 Kernel   Linux Kernel   10 Mar 2013
CentOS 6.5, Oracle Linux 6.5 RHEL Clones Get Released   Red Hat   02 Dec 2013
An Overview Of The Linux 3.7 Kernel   Linux Kernel   09 Dec 2012
A 0-Day Local Privilege Escalation Bug Hits The Linux...   Linux Kernel   19 Jan 2016
AMD Radeon KMS Driver Merged Into FreeBSD   Radeon   28 Aug 2013
Features Coming In For The Linux 3.9 Kernel   Linux Kernel   08 Feb 2013
Tuning Btrfs vs. F2FS, EXT4, XFS File-Systems   Free Software   13 Apr 2013
Linux 3.10 Kernel Benchmarks On A Core i7 Laptop   Linux Kernel   18 May 2013
Linux 3.8 To Linux 3.14 Intel DRM Graphics Benchmarks   Linux Kernel   28 Jan 2014
AMD 760G (Radeon 3000) May Be Worrisome On Linux   Radeon   25 Feb 2013
Intel On Haswell Under Linux: "We've Screwed...   Intel   18 Oct 2012
NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source 2D Driver Code   NVIDIA   26 Nov 2012
Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" Approaches With New...   Operating Systems   16 May 2013
Linux Works Towards True CPU Hotplug Support   Linux Kernel   11 Dec 2012
Ubuntu 13.04 To Target The Linux 3.8 Kernel   Ubuntu   31 Oct 2012
X.Org, Wayland Plans For Ubuntu 13.04 Are Drawn   Wayland   01 Nov 2012
Intel Introduces PowerClamp Driver For Linux   Intel   15 Nov 2012
Intel Delivers Innovations Atop Google's Android   Intel   12 Mar 2013
Zswap: Compressed Swap Caching For Linux   Linux Kernel   12 Dec 2012
Mageia 3 Released, Still Using Legacy GRUB   Operating Systems   19 May 2013
Arch-Based Manjaro Linux Runs Against Ubuntu 13.04   Arch Linux   24 Apr 2013
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Drivers On Quadro Laptop   Nouveau   15 Mar 2013
HDA Intel Audio To Improve A Lot In Linux 3.9 Kernel   Intel   18 Jan 2013
NVIDIA Publishes Their Next-Gen Tegra 4 Code   NVIDIA   20 Dec 2012
Linux Begins To Support Windows 8 Multi-Touch   Hardware   13 Dec 2012
Linux 3.8 Kernel Officially Released   Linux Kernel   18 Feb 2013
Gaming, Linux Desktop Advances For May 2013   Phoronix   31 May 2013
Intel Linux Driver Still Working To Address Tearing   Intel   21 Oct 2012
Alpine Linux 3.8 Released With ARM64 Raspberry Pi...   Operating Systems   26 Jun 2018
What Didn't Make The Cut For The Linux 3.8 Kernel   Linux Kernel   25 Dec 2012
Comparing The Ubuntu And Fedora Linux Kernels   Linux Kernel   09 May 2013
New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exploited   Linux Kernel   15 May 2013
Video 4 Linux 2 (V4L2) Continues With New Features   Linux Kernel   27 Aug 2012
Open-Source GPU Drivers Improved For Linux 3.8   Linux Kernel   21 Nov 2012
Mir, ARM & Valve Excite Linux Users This Month   Valve   31 Mar 2013
Valve Puts Out The Steam Link SDK With OpenGL ES, Qt...   Valve   14 Jan 2016
Coreboot Ported To A ~$30 AMD AM1 Motherboard   Coreboot   10 Apr 2015
Optimizing Mesa Performance With Compiler Flags   Mesa   27 Jan 2013
There's Talk Again About Btrfs For Fedora   Fedora   17 Jan 2013
Core i7 4770K - HD Graphics 4600 On New Linux Kernels   Intel   09 Jun 2013
AMD Releases Catalyst 13.4 For Linux   AMD   24 Apr 2013
OpenBSD Now Has AMD Radeon KMS Graphics   Radeon   14 Aug 2013
Btrfs Gets Improved Performance On Linux 3.8 Kernel   Linux Storage   17 Dec 2012
FreeBSD Is Slowly But Surely Trying To Catch Up With...   BSD   10 Oct 2014
Nine Exciting Features Coming To Mesa 9.1   Mesa   14 Feb 2013
Security Problem Discovered In Btrfs File-System   Linux Storage   14 Dec 2012
The Linux Kernel Highlights Of The 2010s From...   Linux Kernel   31 Dec 2019
Intel Makes Cryptography Faster On Linux   Linux Kernel   14 Dec 2012
New Linux Kernel LZO For 3.9 Is Much Faster   Linux Kernel   01 Mar 2013
Hybrid Graphics In Ubuntu Are Still Lackluster   Ubuntu   01 Nov 2012
Windows, Wine, Intel, Compilers Top February   Phoronix   28 Feb 2013
NVIDIA Still Working On Open-Source For Tegra Driver   NVIDIA   25 Nov 2012
Major Network Performance Regressions In Linux   Linux Kernel   06 Jan 2013
Linux Kernel Still Picking Up AVX Optimizations   Linux Kernel   19 Dec 2012
Ubuntu 13.04 Is About 13% Complete   Ubuntu   19 Nov 2012
Nouveau Gets More Improvements For Linux 3.8   Linux Kernel   30 Dec 2012
Intel Driver Changes Building Up For Linux 3.8 Kernel   Intel   22 Nov 2012
ACPI Power Management Gets Improved In Linux 3.8   Linux Kernel   11 Dec 2012
Linux Audio Driver Improvements On The Horizon   Linux Kernel   14 Dec 2012
FreeBSD Working On A GPLv3 Toolchain Repo & Other...   BSD   02 May 2016
AMD Radeon Driver Support To Land In FreeBSD 10.0   BSD   19 Aug 2013
Intel Keeps Pushing Haswell Code For Linux   Intel   23 Oct 2012
Linux 3.11 Power Consumption Results Are Mixed   Linux Kernel   09 Aug 2013
New Linux Distribution Ships Valve's Steam...   Valve   08 Mar 2013
The Back Story On The Open NVIDIA Tegra Driver   NVIDIA   28 Nov 2012
Intel's Haswell Introduces VECS, VEBOX   Intel   07 Nov 2012
NVIDIA Continues Backing Open-Source Tegra Driver   NVIDIA   03 Feb 2013
EXT4 In Linux 3.8 Brings Inline Data, Seek Hole/Data   Linux Storage   17 Dec 2012
Linux Kernel To Get AIO Performance Improvements   Linux Kernel   04 Dec 2012
OpenBSD 5.4 Has New Hardware Support, Intel DRM   BSD   01 Nov 2013
FreeBSD 10.2 Released, Linux Compatibility Based Off...   BSD   14 Aug 2015
Samsung's Exynos DRM Driver Keeps Advancing   Hardware   29 Nov 2012
Linux 3.8-rc6 Kernel Is Bigger Than Linus Would Like   Linux Kernel   01 Feb 2013
Linux Begins To Support IBM's Next-Gen POWER8   Hardware   15 Dec 2012
Intel 2012Q4 Graphics Driver Is Good For Valve   Valve   27 Nov 2012
AMD Radeon Driver Changes Coming For Linux 3.9   Radeon   02 Feb 2013
Intel Mesa 9.1 Benchmarks On Unity, KDE, Xfce, Etc   Mesa   28 Feb 2013
AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta 3 Available For Linux Users   AMD   24 Mar 2013