Linux 2.4.18 Released

Posted by michael on Monday February 25, 2002 @09:30AM from the power-of-pure-penguins dept.

Kourino writes: "Marcelo announced the release of 2.4.18 a couple hours ago after 4 release candidates, but the tree marked 2.4.18 on kernel.org is missing the -rc4 patch that finally made the kernel releasable. Basically, what's marked as 2.4.18 is really -rc3, and what's marked as -rc4 is what should have become 2.4.18. According to Marcelo on #kernelnewbies, most users won't be affected, but people on SPARC systems should definitely grab 2.4.18-rc4. Your best bet is probably just to get 2.4.17 and patch to 2.4.18-rc4. Seems 2.4 is destined to be an "interesting" release branch ^_^; For the new release, head over to your favorite kernel.org mirror. (Marcelo will set things straight in 2.4.19-pre1.)"

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amd cache coherency by theEdgeSMAK · 2002-02-25 09:46 · Score: 4, Interesting

Has anybody addressed the amd cache coherency bug? I'm still booting with mem=nopentium. That makes me sad.

jeremy
Just give me a kernel that turns off my computer by Bradee-oh! · 2002-02-25 11:27 · Score: 3, Interesting

The only kernel that's ever actually powered down my machine on shutdown or halt is the special 2.4.8 included with my Mandrake distro.

Has anyone else had this problem and actually fixed it??

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