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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."
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Can someone in the know sum up the major changes?
The 4000+ Line changelog is a little too big to read though.
Slow news day?
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
2.6.0-test2-bk7 seemed to cause no problems to me, well I must try harder to get these pesky bugs nailed down.
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.
:P slashdot is replacing fark for the laugh factor
Time for some homebrew babelfish
Translation: Any bug you don't report (But hundreds of others will) might not be fixed, that is, if you don't report it!
geeze
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
Great!
But before I download this, where do I pay my SCO licensing fee?
Or: Remember, if you find a bug and don't report it, it probably won't get fixed in the next release.
I tried it. It didn't work.
Has SCO already taken the opportunity to claim this new version as yet another illegal *x derivative?
This is the correct link to http://kernel.org
I just built -test2!
Doh!
wget http://www.kernel.org...blah blah blah
h
What support tools need to be upgraded? I assume modutils. Which version of GCC is needed? What about stuff like ip_tables, are any changes needed? Maybe someone could post a quick summary of the "gotchas".
"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."
If I don't report it, it won't be fixed if I don't report it?
Just making sure I need to submit all bug reports twice.
If found a bug, by you it is, report it you must, or fixed not it will be. This I sense in the Force. Chances you must take not, that reported by others it is, such a bug. Vigilant always, a kernel tester must be.
(For those of you who report "Jedi" as your faith on the Census).
SCO employee? Check out the bounty
I know, it was a joke ... note the smiley right there.
But what if I do find a bug that I do report, is it then fixed if I do report it after I've reported it? Or something.
My head hurts, I think I'll go and lie down now.
There are 10 kinds of people; those who know ternary, those who don't, and those now hunting for a dictionary.
Its Hyper Threadig Text protocol
Sorry for the fundamental question, but where might I find a RPM for this for Redhat 9? I've hunted some without success. Thanks!
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What's "htttp"? "hyper text texting protocol"?
I meant "hyper text texting transfer protocol". That's what I get posting this close to midnight (my time).
The excess t's were to make up for the missing //.
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And don't forget the . between kernel and org.
Remember, any story posted to slashdot that isn't edited is likely to have errors if it isn't edited.
Thank you.
Remember, any text that you send using the HyperText Transfer Text Protocol, if you send it in text, is send in text.
Have Linux installed at your place in Amsterdam, for cheap
give t's a chance!
Use your cloaking device.
And in case it's fixed later, it is broken right now. What's "htttp"? "hyper text texting protocol"? :)
/. decided to find out ;)
It's the new web protocol. It seems that a company named SCO has claimed IP rights to the http protocol, and is demanding $3 in licence fees per connection. Some speculate they will even claim any other protocol providing weblike functions to be a derivative work, but that's yet to be confirmed. So
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Wow, I see three posts already modded as Informative correcting this "mistake." It's there for a reason - when a slashbot sees a link it clicks. By placing a malformed URL in the story, the poster or Taco has just saved kernel.org a lot of bandwidth.
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.
I found a bug that I didn't report. Now that I have reported finding a bug that I did not report, that means that the bug will be fixed, right?
The airo driver (for cisco wireless cards) still causes kernel panics. Hopefully this card will become usable at some point. For now it's a process of:
1. compile 2.6-testX
2. reboot
3. crash within 5 minutes
4. reboot, notice dataloss
5. restore affected files from backup.
This is the third test, and the third time through!
That is blatantly untrue. Just go to the ftp and download the kernel yourself, if you dont believe it.
Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I can boot test2 and test3 just fine, but as soon as I log in, I get "stdin: not a tty" and I can't do anything else. Well, I can ftp in...
I've selected every console related thing I can seein menuconfig... still missing something I guess.
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.)
Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?
Ask that Intel
(-% TwistedMind %-)
I, for one, am excited about it and hope to have it running by tomorrow. I could use the better I/O
Put identity in the browser.
Try http://www.kernel.org...
Why? http://kernel.org/ is enough.
Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?
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
Funny isn't it? From all the hundreds of /.ers who reported this story they chose the one with a broken link to kernel.org and redundant text.
But remember: "Be Descriptive, Clear and Simple and descriptive, and clear and simple!"
I remember the one time we had one someone with like #17 posted.
Thanks!
The README says you need to compile it with gcc 2.95.3. Are there any plans on when the 3.x series will be either supported or just switched to? Since I focus on C++, I know 3.x has a lot of improvements in the C++ compiler, but maybe for C it's not such a compelling switch.
Monster Mash and RHPS? What?
Ce n'est pas un vrai mouvement de robot!
Linus mail says that SELinux security module is included in this release. It is interesting whether distributions will start to include SELinux support in standart editions.
The Oronico PCMCIA card is working with one of those PCI to PCMCIA bridges.
This seems to be the only thing that is working.
Frame Buffer to scroll bootlog text and show Penguin is not working. (845G graphics)
USB is not working,
sound (ens1371) is not working.
If I knew more, I would sbmit bug reports. I likely screwed up build the options. But I do not know that for sure.
The wireless networking is the last thing I expected to work!
Religion is the main cause of atheism.
Uhh, that's why they make patches available.
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
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.
Request your free CD of my piano music.
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5
I have been using Arjan's 2.6 kernel RPMS from here. test1 was working fine, but test2 and test3 have this mysterious hard lockup problem after a few hours of uptime and moderate CPU load. Has anyone seen this problem? Already known reported bug?
I like the concept of open source and all, but it's not as "open" as it's made out to be.
Random is the New Order.
Microsoft and SCO aren't in their offices on a Sunday. As soon as they open up on Monday morning, I'm sure that one of the two will do something that will inspire a Slashdot story.
Whenever I run this on my laptop it always changes the screen size by turning off the video scaling; it's annoying that I have to reset this each bootup. Does anyone else run into this issue?
(dell laptop, nvidia card)
- MbM
Anyone using raid-0 through software in linux will likely want to hold off, as an array that can do 50 mb/s in 2.4.21 only pulls 15 mb/s in 2.6.
/dev/md0 (as suggested on lkml)
This is with hdparm -a 512
It could be that the PDC20265 card support just got much worse, as each of the drives on that card had their IO potential cut in half, however.
... "Round 3: FIGHT"?
Attack its weak point for massive damage!
(I can't keep my eyes off the WD Raptor these days...)
Will Windows ever be "finished"? Will the Ford Explorer ever be "finished"? Will your work ever be "finished"? Will human society ever be "finished"?
Umm.... Let's take them one at a time.
1. (Windows) No, since Microsoft couldn't make money off of you if you weren't forced to upgrade. Unless, of course, Microsoft decides they don't like money anymore... (So it's a definite no).
2. (Explorer) We can only hope so. SUV's are bad enough as it is, but that's about the worst... At some point, though, it'll have everything they need to maximize profit, and it'll be finished, then discontinued after it is no longer profitable.
3. (Work) If it's important. You've got to die sometime. Maybe your work isn't finished then, but you will be finished working. But if it's important, someone will finish it.
4. (Society) Yes, or No, depending on your definition. Human society constantly kills itself, so at some point, we'll all be dead, and society's work will be finished. Also, we'll all be finished then, in another sense of the word. But, if you mean finished, as in perfect... Why bother asking. That's just a hell no.
--That's the point of being root, you can do anything you want, even if it's stupid.
Not reporting bug you didn't find won't get that unreported bug reported or found unless it is fixed then it will have been found and reported.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla