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Linux 2.5.2 Kernel Released

Posted by Hemos on from the go-and-compile dept.

valdis writes "Amazing.. it's been out over 3 hours and not discussed to death. Well, maybe there's not as many bleeding-edge crazies out there. But if there are, here's what's new. You can get it at the usual place, but please use the mirrors if you can."

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  1. USB by ciryon · · Score: 5, Interesting
    USB update (including initial 2.0 support)

    Sounds rather interesting. I've had some issues with my Rio 800 MP3 player with many 2.4 kernels, perhaps it's more stable now? Also great that the kernel guys are working on 2.0 support.

    Ciryon

  2. Re:Hardware support by Kynde · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the future (read "when linux is 2.6ish") we'll have an autoconfiguration tool to assist in probing hardware and accompanying appropriate drivers for the build process. This in turn will hopefully push more manufacturers to release linux drivers along with their M$ drivers since more and more ppl will be able to compile their kernels.

    There's huge amounts of discussion going on in the lkml (Linux Kernel Mailing List) right now the autoconfiguration tool.

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  3. Or maybe... by SilentChris · · Score: 5, Interesting
    "Well, maybe there's not as many bleeding-edge crazies out there."

    Or maybe most of us are at work and are working on (relatively) stable workstations that we can't tinker with. I'm not a kernel hacker myself (I wait until a distro comes out with a new stable kernel and all the trimmings) but I can imagine that kernel traffic probably peaks after business hours.