Four key new features in Linux 3.6

Just a little more than two months after the release of version 3.5, Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Sunday unleashed the next new version of the Linux kernel. Perhaps most notable among several key new features in Linux 3.6 is “hybrid sleep,” a capability much like one that has long been offered by Microsoft's Windows. “When I did the -rc7 announcement a week ago, I said I might have to do an...