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Linux 2.4.7 Released

Posted by michael on from the sharp-end-of-the-spear dept.

Kazmat was one of the earlier people to write in with the news: "Linux 2.4.7 has just been released! Head on over kernel.org to download it or check the changelog." Remember to run lilo before you reboot! :)

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  1. Re:lilo? by iCEBaLM · · Score: 5

    I'm not sure that it's any better than lilo, but the menu.lst does look a bit cleaner than lilo.conf.

    Oh, it is. LILO stores the physical address of the first sector of the kernel image and boots off that, if you screw with the partitions even a little bit it'll cause the dreaded "LO" syndrome.

    GRUB, on the other hand, reads the filesystems directly, no running it after every kernel compile, hell, you can even launch the uberleet GRUB command prompt and boot stuff you haven't defined ahead of time, it's extremely flexable and saved my ass a few times.

    In conclusion kids: GRUB > LILO.

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  2. The VM by KidSock · · Score: 5


    All I want to know is wheather or not the VM is stable. From what I understand it has been the source of instability and deadlock. I know Linus, Rik van Riel, Andrea Arcangeli, and others have been hunting for the source of the reported problems and did find some potentialially serious bugs but it's been difficult to reproduce the problem which as the programmers here know greatly complicates finding a fix. I'm getting some of this from the last paragraph of the Kernel page at lwn.net and there's an intersting thread in the lk mailing list here: Re: VM in 2.4.7-pre hurts.... Anyone have any insight into this particular problem? And I wonder if Linus will drop the issue and turn his attention to the imminent 2.5. I think that would be a mistake.

  3. vmware breaks by willamowius · · Score: 5

    2.47 breaks the compilation of the vmware modules. If you need them, wait for an update from vmware until upgrading.

  4. Kernel Review service by The+Ultimate+Badass · · Score: 5

    2.4.7 is not only a dramatic improvement over 2.4.6, it is a whole new paradigm in linux computing. I urge any linux users to update with all haste. You simply must not miss out on the transition, or you will be left behind. From now on, we won't be asking "Got 2.4.6?" No, now it's "Got 2.4.7?"

    The minor changes to USB will definitely rock your world, and you'll love what "initialize page->age" will do to your swap cache. I think Linus said it best, when he said "semaphores are not good swap handlers."

    Remember: 2.4.7, a quantum leap forward.

    --

    Denial isn't just a river in Italy