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Linux 2.6.0-test3 Released
xepsilon writes "Linux 2.6.0-test3 has been released. Grab your copy off your local kernel.org mirror and report those bugs! Remember, any bug you find that you don't report is likely to not be fixed in the next release if you don't report it. See the ChangeLog for more details."
This is the correct link to http://kernel.org
You *need* to upgrade modutils, also if you want to use cryptoloop you'll have to get a new util-linux.
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RedHat's Arjan van de Ven has RPM's here.
But: Half the fun of Linux is hand-tweaking your own kernel setup and compiling your own. Why not just do that? =)
Also, remember that you need to upgrade other pieces as well when going from 2.4 to 2.6 - the module utilities in particular. They are now known as "module-init-tools"
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right! =)
However, if you do want an rpm, there are people at Redhat who do build them ;)
You can download from here.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
Then link to /mirrors/ instead of the top of kernel.org. (Some time in the past I was unable to contact kernel.org for days, so I started mirroring the list of mirrors near my country.)
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Here's your list of gotchas. Read it carefully before proceeding.
0.5) Make sure I'm running ext3 or reiserfs
.config, and any messages that you can maybe extract from dmesg (if it left any there).
6. Send an email to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
describing the problem - so maybe it can get fixed.
Developers don't have time to test every piece of hardware.
If you do send an email I recommend listing exactly what airo card you have, including your
If you want to try it again, I assume you get a big OOPS screen with a bunch of stuff like Stack Trace on it.
Copying this down and sending it is very valuable information to debugging.
Make sure to activate CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_VT, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE in the configuration. You can find out if you did that by looking into your .config file.
/dev/pts. The devfs in kernel 2.4 used to have it's own devpts, but this is no longer the case.
Do you use devfs? Than you will want to compile devpts, too, and mount it to
Being a LKML lurker, here are a few of the new features.
You can compile the 2.6 series with GCC 3.2+ no problem, the readme is in error.
better scheduler so your desktop should feel quicker. i.e. you can play kbounce without your mp3 player 'skipping'. thats about all the end user will notice.
Brand spankn' new asyncronous "Deadline I/O scheduler, which will sort requests more agressivly/efficiently
phat new scheduler that constantly makes decisions no matter how many processes are running on the current machine. Gets rid of the problem of bouncing processes on smp machines that pleagues the current scheduler.
NAPI keeps kernel from being overridden with device interupts from high speed adapters. TCP offloading an asyncronous I/O help the network stack as well.
Neet VFS improvements
The inclusion of ALSA, along with support for many new devices (of course).
New Device Model (coherant registry of sorts).
many more, check it out. I have seen some very promising benchmarks.
You should also be aware the Linus gets to release a new kernel whenever he wants. He does this when he thinks its the right time, for reasons that don't always involve reliability. He posts a new kernel release when he feels its ready, often without testing it particularly rigorously, and it has happened quite a few times that Linus has released a new "stable" kernel that turns out to be quite broken. It is actually quite common for the stable releases of the non-86 architectures to be quite buggy.
Finally, Linus announced on linux-kernel that the reason he released the first 2.4 stable kernel (2.4.0) was because he wanted more widespread testing, not because he felt it was ready to use. I wouldn't be surprised if he does this with 2.6. Both 2.2 and 2.4 went through several releases before they were really stabilized, and 2.4 has never been as reliable as the later 2.2 versions.
That's why I ask you to read:
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Why We Should Test the New Linux Kernel
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Using Test Suites to Validate the Linux Kernel
The Open Source Development Lab's Japan development center used to have japanese translations of them but they don't seem to be online anymore. I'll track them down and post them here when I can find them.I am actively seeking further translations of these and the other articles that are at The Linux Quality Database. The articles are all under the GNU Free Documentation License so you can just grab them and translate away.
Thank you for your attention.
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Red-Carpet is from Ximian and NOT Red Hat. Red-Carpet is used for Ximian Deskto (XD2), RHN (Red Hat Network) is from Red Hat. It is much more configuarable then Windows Update IMO and it is easy to set up a local service. It is also much more powerfull as far as control over the systems and what you want to send down and to what machines. Oh, and there is NO REBOOT REQUIRED.
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