Linux 2.4.19 Released

Adrian Voinea writes "The latest stable Linux kernel (2.4.19) is out. The somewhat massive changelog has the details. The patch file is here and the full source is here. If possible use a mirror."

Comments

I donno

[twitter]

Dump? Thanks for the letter from Linus telling me not to use something I never heard of.

Let me try to be helpful. Combinations of tar find and grep work well for me.

basic tar syntax:

tar cvx archive_name.tar file_path_1 file_path_2 ... to create archive_name.tar with all files in path.

tar xvf archive_name.tar to restore. the .tar is optional of course, but it helps me.

useful tar options:

-u, update to only add new or modified files.

-G, old style incrimental

-g, new style incrimental

-z, gzip files

Combined with find and grep and put into a chron job, this is a very powerful backup tool. For example something like:

tar cvu archive.tar `find | grep patern`

performed at regular intervals does a great job.

Tell me about dump.

Modules?

[evilviper]

Great!!! I always love when a new kernel comes out so I can deal with a completely different set of modules having 'unresolved symbols' and being impossible to load/use.