Its a known fact that Linux now a days have out of the box support for various Hardware’s and in most of the case the user will never have to install a single driver for his hardware to work. With each release of Linux kernel, hardware support have always improved and its no exception in latest one released.

After 65 days of development Linus Torvalds have released the version 2.6.39 of Linux kernel with major enhancement in firewall and hardware support. This release have introduced ipset, making it simple to configure and deploy firewalls. Another major improvement in this release is the support for AMD “Cayman” high-end graphics cards. There is also support for samsung netbook function keys and Realtek RTL8192CU and RTL8188CU Wi-Fi chips. There is also an enhanced Nouveau driver boosts support for Nvidia GPUs while a basic Poulsbo KMS driver is included, but without acceleration support.

By each release Linux kernel is improving hardware support to a great extend and this would help more mainstream usage of Linux on desktop.