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Torvalds: Test The kernel, 2.6 May Be Out In 2003

Posted by timothy on from the december-18 dept.

Jan Stafford writes "In this interview, Linus Torvalds talks up the test version of the 2.6 Linux kernel released last weekend. He also hints at when a stable, production 2.6.0 might be released." Specifically, Linux encourages big shops to test out the improved high-end capabilities.

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  1. Early December by Bishop923 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linus mentions that he hopes to have 2.6 out by "Early December". Who wants to take bets we aren't talking about December 2003? :-)

  2. OK, I've had problems by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since installing 2.6.0-test9 under RH9, and after pulling the updated module-init tools, I had the following problems:

    RPM died - had to get the bleeding edge version from Rawhide and install it.
    Vi would coredump on exit - had to get the latest glibc* from Rawhide.
    Wine died - still working on that one.

    I had to fight to get the new module tools to load the correct AGPGART module to support the radeon DRI driver.

    I'm a little worried that a kernel change is breaking fairly generic userspace apps like RPM and vi (Wine I can understand to some extent....)

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    1. Re:OK, I've had problems by zenyu · · Score: 5, Informative

      I think this documents the right glibc bug. The 2.6 kernel makes TSC support optional. TSC suffers from clock drift which is especially a problem when using frequency scaling or on NUMA systems. Instead you can use another timer. But glibc compiled for i686 uses TSC without checking for availability, because it assumes all those on that platform would have one. The 2.4 kernels always offered it on that platform so it wasn't a problem, now it is.

  3. Something to notice: by legerde · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Anyway, I'm waffling. This is a decision that the IT center needs to make on its own." -- Linus.

    Point 1: When would any corporate software PR person ever admit "I'm waffling."

    Point 2: When would any corporate software PR person ever encourage an IT center to make a decision on its own. They would tell you that you "must" upgrade a pay because newer is better.