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Arch Linux Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 3.12

Officially announced by Linus Torvalds on November 3, 2013, Linux kernel 3.12 brings several attractive features, among which we can mention support for offline deduplication in Btrfs, better performance for AMD Radeon graphics, RAID5 multithreading, automatic GPU switching in laptops with dual GPUs, better Out-Of-Memory handling, XFS directory recursion scalability improvements, improved TTY layer locking, as well as new drivers and lots of bugfixes.

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