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Linux Development Kernel 2.5.18 Released

Posted by timothy on from the well-now-it-has dept.

the_real_tigga writes: "Well, the day is almost over, and still today's release of version 2.5.18 of the Linux development kernel tree has not yet hit Slashdot. It is out, the official site is of course kernel.org, but be sure to check your local mirrors (usually www.country.kernel.org). Here is the long Changelog, major changes include suspend-to-RAM, more IDE and VFS fixes, and kbuild. Linux Weekly has the news too, and a summary of the changes."

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  1. buffer_head.h by worldwideweber · · Score: 5, Informative

    Folks,

    buffer_head is now in its own header file, so in suspend.c, for example, you will need to include
    < linux/buffer_head.h >.

    Also, to get HFS (Apple filesystem) to compile, you have to include < linux/pagemap.h >

    Best of luck...

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  2. Re:suspend-to-RAM? by tenordave · · Score: 5, Informative

    They lied, this is actually suspend-to-disk, or swap, to be specific. The difference between this and the apm suspend, is that the apm suspend counts on the bios to do most of the work, while this addition (formerly called software-suspend) does it all in software, without any bios help. So, the computer doesn't still need to be on, and the bios can be from 1890 and it will still work.

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  3. Handy status page by awptic · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who don't have time to follow every kernel release, there's a page someone put together to follow all the big changes going into the 2.5 developement series here