Linux 2.6.0-test9 Released

keesh writes "Linux kernel 2.6.0-test9 is now out. Changes include SATA support and XFS and CIFS fixes. Because of the change freeze, this is a fairly minor update. In the announcement, Linus suggests that -test10 will be the final release before 2.6.0-final. Don't forget to use a mirror."

Comments

Taunting the LG users?

[wrinkledshirt]

I see one of the icons for this story is a compact disc. That's just plain mean.

Still the same error, propagated from kernel 2.2

[Anonymous Coward]

I submitted several bugs to the bug tracker, I e-mailed Alan Cox and Lunis Torvalds, and I still get the same error when trying to run it:

kernel-2.6.0-test9.tar.bz2 is not a valid Win32 application

and then the error message with Ok and Cancel.

Anyone has any howto on whether this bug will ever be fixed? Or is there a service pack or a patch I missed?

Re:So what's the difference?

[gid]

Alsa sound drivers are built right in. So now I don't need to copile them separately. The oss support for my sound card was very half ass, it didn't even support full duplex and hardware mixing.

Also, i2c and the lm sensors interface is built right in as well. So now I don't have to compile i2c and lm sensors to know how hot my mobo and cpu are running. They have saved my computer at least once. My cpu fan died on me, I wouldn't have known if I didn't have it graphed.

Also there's pre-emptible kernel option. It makes X more responsive, especially noticeable under heavy load and on slower computers. Supposedly better memory management as well, but as I have 768 megs of ram, I probably won't ever notice that.

There's also USB 2.0 support, and support for USB type removeable drivers. I think both of those are new.

There's probalby more, but those are the ones I know off hand.

Re:Not ready for prime time

[Prof.Phreak]

Hmm... try this:

lex@particle theory $ uname -a
Linux particle 2.6.0-test6 #3 Sun Sep 28 19:27:41 EDT 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

alex@particle theory $ uptime
01:03:46 up 27 days, 3:45, 4 users, load average: 0.16, 0.36, 0.30

And this is my *primary* dev box that doubles as a server (web, mysql, etc.,) and pretty much anything else I use a computer for (play music, video, etc.,)

How exactly is 27 days uptime not stable?