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Linux Kernel 2.5.19 Released
The Pi-Guy writes "It's that time again, yep, another kernel update - 2.5.19 is out there, including lots of drivers ported to the new API, and lots of ia64 and PPC32 fixes! Grab it from your local Kernel.org mirror, or if you're feeling mean, you can grab it directly from kernel.org here. The changelog is also at kernel.org."
There is already bluetooth support in 2.4.18.
I found this kernel to be very stable and very reliable. This is very promising. I run JDK from blackdown and openoffice 1.0, as well as latest Mozilla, IRC, and got to admit that the system feels very responsive and extremelly feature rich. Hell, I can even use videolan with regionfree plugins. The 2.4 glitches for power saving features I experienced in the past seem to be gone too. Thumbs up for all the people who helped make this happen.
PPA, the girl next door.
-- I feel better now. Thanks for asking.
This is apparently an open source project by Nokia:
Affix Bluetooth Protocol Stack for Linux
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
One of the big things I know is the integration of the Alsa Sound drivers.
:)
This is quite a big move and I'm glad, the old kernel sound drivers were getting horribly out of date and lacked many features, such as hardware mixing support to name one.
I've been compiling the alsa drivers as modules for the entire 2.4.x series, and am *really* glad I won't have to be doing that any longer.
kbuild will probably go in, but it needs to be split up and added piecemeal... If Keith hasn't already burned out, it will take a few months. If Keith HAS burned out, and nobody steps in to take over, well, the current stuff still works fine. It's just not nearly as nice.
KGI: what sort of example is this?? KGI was nowhere even near complete enough to be added to the kernel. These guys gave up before they were even half-way done. See the ruby project (the great console re-org) for kgi done right. Linus was correct to deny KGI.
A better example would be CML2. It was pretty close to ready. ESR just needed to fix some bugs and make the interface closer to what we've been using for years. Did he? No, he spent all his time adding stuff like autoconfig that nobody would use anyway and flaming up a storm. He completely ignored the grievous xconfig bugs and performance issues. The design of his CML2 language was weird and needlessly complex. Using Python was motivated more by language advocacy rather than design decision. Linus was correct to deny him.
Look at how long it took RL to get the preemtible kernel patch in, or Jaroslav to get ALSA in. Persistence pays off, stability reigns.
If you want kbuild 2.5 now, it's easy to apply the patch...
Does anyone else find it absurd that they host the list of mirrors of their site... on their site?
// select a mirror at random
// I only have hosts with 10+ Mbit/sec here
i nux/", "http:/ " , "http://www.llarian-net.lkams.kernen ux/", "http://www.ihets.lkams.kernel.org/pub/linux/", "http://www.mi n ux/", "http://www.valinux.lkams.kernel.org/pub/linux/", "http://www.uw-madisu x/", "http://www.csl-mirror.lkams.kernel.org/pub/lin
u x/", "http://www.ymbnet.lkams.kernel.org/pub/linux/", "http://www.themoes-us.lku x/", "http://www.teleglobe-us.lkams.kernel.org/pub/linu x// ");
I did, and created a simple PHP script that will redirect you to a random mirror site. (My list of hosts that it uses is everyone with something greater than a T1.) I have very little bandwidth, and am not really supposed to run a webserver on my cable modem anyway, but perhaps someone with a "real" server, with PHP support, could put this up. It's probably not the best-written program, but it works. If someone wants to put it up on their high-bandwidth site and post links, I think it would be a great way to offload traffic from the main server, especially for when "bigger" things are released that cause the main site to hover just below 100 Mbps...
<?php
$hosts = array("http://www.internap.lkams.kernel.org/pub/l
//www.netnitco.lkams.kernel.org/pub/linux
l.org/pub/li
idco.lkams.kernel.org/pub/linux/", "http://www.ftp-orst-edu.lkams.kernel.org/pub
/l
on.lkams.kernel.org/pub/lin
ams.kernel.org/pub/lin
", "http://www.secsup-org.lkams.kernel.org/pub/linux
$max = count($hosts);
$site = rand(0, $max);
header("Location: $hosts[$site]");
exit;
?>
Note that this code uses VERY little bandwidth, since all it sends is an HTTP redirect.
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2.5.20 appears to be out already at kernel.org.
And now 2.5.20 is out ;)
Then don't "feel"... Calculate. You'll see that 2,401 is enough for just about any significance level you can think of. Statisticians deal with this stuff all the time. A sample of 2,401 is HUGE for this. Most Gallup polls only use a sample of 1,000 or so to calculate the opinion of the entire adult population of the United States. See: this You're correct about the Linux poll probably not being a representative sample, but even that isn't known for sure. Care to take the data from this poll, data from a random sample and preform a simple hypothesis test? (Hint: It's expensive, time consuming, and in the end they might be the same.)