Linux kernel updates pretty much always add a raft of for better hardware support, and Linux 3.6 is no exception. Of particular note among those are drivers targeting Sony and Apple vendor-specific devices.

Among several changes designed to improve memory management, finally, is a new feature that allows swap read-ahead IOPS (input/output operations per second) to be merged, thereby improving throughput while also lowering CPU consumption.

Of course, this is just a tiny sampling of all the changes included in this new release. For a full listing, visit the release notes .