Linux Kernel 2.6.0-test8 Released

Posted by michael on Saturday October 18, 2003 @07:27AM from the closer-to-fine dept.

djcapelis writes "It's that time again. Latest release is hot off the presses in this final bit of stabilization before 2.6.0 is finally released. Changelog: here. Use mirrors if you're nice, but kernel.org has a nice little bandwidth readout on the front page so you can see how hard their servers are being hit if you don't feel like tracking one down. A few XFS changes from SGI in there as well if anyone is still worried on that topic. Watch for the MM patches when they come out. The FTP server seems to be snappier for some."

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Re:Framebuffers by GammaTau · 2003-10-18 07:57 · Score: 5, Interesting

They still haven't fixed the problems in the framebuffers. Anyone know why this is so low priority?

As far as I understand, there is still a significant body of new framebuffer code that hasn't been merged to Linus' tree. There is a message from the framebuffer maintainer on the Linux framebuffer development list saying that the merge will happen, quoting him directly, "Very soon. I have new software cursor code that I'm debugging right now. This is the only thing holding back the syning."