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Linux 2.6.0 Expected In Mid-December

Posted by timothy on from the send-more-penguins dept.

Ridgelift writes "CRN is reporting the release of Linux 2.6.0 in mid-December. 'Torvalds, Linux's lead developer and now an OSDL Fellow, and Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton this week released the test10 version of Linux 2.6 after a three-year development effort. A final test11 version is expected before they sign off on the production version next month.' Get ready for 'major scalability improvements, faster performance, enhanced support for embedded systems and, to a lesser extent,' a kernel that 'supplies desktop systems with better USB and FireWire support.'"

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  1. Linux 2.6: I can only recommend it! by quigonn · · Score: 5, Informative

    We're running 2.6.0-test9 on several production machines at work, and we had absolutely no problem, so far, but a huge improvement on performance instead. The only thing one has to care about is that 2.6.0 requires module-init-tools instead of modutils. It's especially important to read the upgrade guide, so that one can easily switch back to 2.4.x even when using modules (not that I would miss 2.4.x, but you never know... not all people will have such flawless upgrade processes as I did).

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    1. Re:Linux 2.6: I can only recommend it! by Dave2+Wickham · · Score: 4, Informative

      make moveold before make install - it moves the current lsmod, modprobe etc to lsmod.old, modprobe.old etc.

  2. IDE support on Dell Latitude D600 by cerberusss · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm running this new kernel to get full support on whatever IDE chipset my Dell Latitude D600 laptop uses. Combined with the better performance this kernel really rocks.

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  3. They seem to have som problems though... by errl · · Score: 5, Informative

    A problem, potentially delaying release? Seems that they don't really know what causes it as of yet...

  4. Re:Keyboard still doesn't work by MrHanky · · Score: 5, Informative

    Have you tried "pci=noacpi" at the boot prompt? I had complete crashes (no kernel panic) when the keyboard was initialized before I tried that. Maybe your problem is related? (This is for a PS/2 type keyboard, BTW.)

    I don't think I have any problems with 2.6.0-test9-mm1 at all.

  5. Re:Debian support by scharkalvin · · Score: 4, Informative

    Debian supports 2.4 right now. You get your choice with 'woody'. True the default install CD DOES install 2.2, but if you boot with the BF24 image, you will install the 2.4 kernel. AND 2.4 kernel images ARE in the 'stable' package tree.

  6. Red Hat builds by Bernie · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's worth reminding RH/Fedora users that Arjan van de Ven maintains kernel RPMs (including new module RPMs etc), and those with yum and apt can very easily test 2.6 using these files.

    Read the readme.txt for full details.

  7. Re:2.6 Kernel issues - Is it really ready? by Dionysus · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most notably (for me) is devfs not being actively supported anymore (being shifted in favor of udev).

    Well, the reason devfs is not actively supported is because the maintainer disappeared, and nobody has stepped up to take over the code.

    udev seems to solve the problem of only have /dev files that correspond to devices you have connected. But they are moving "back" to the old /dev/sg?1 etc. I much prefer the devfs nameing scheme (what do you do if you have more than 24 hds? The devfs had a solution for that).

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