Kernel 2.6.1 Released

jnf writes "And so he said it is released, and then jumped on a plane to Australia. Linus announced the release of 2.6.1 a few minutes ago, fixes include AGPGART, a fork() bugfix, and misc changes to XFS, and those are just the patches applied since v2.6.1-rc3. Full changelog is avialable, kernel at the usual places, i held off posting this until kernel.org was updated." 2.6.0 is now in Debian unstable...

Comments

cygwin

[Anonymous Coward]

still doesn't build on cygwin..

Re:cygwin

[aled]

Worst: it doesn't compile with VS.NET. This Linux thing isn't as portable as advertised.

Re:cygwin

[arvindn]

I've seen worse

Re:cygwin

[quigonn]

I can remember when somebody wrote that Sauron was Frodo's father, and it was moderated +4 or +5 insightful. _That_ was bad.

Of course...

[Stween]

... it gets released the minute I've installed 2.6.0.

Perhaps I'll wait until at least 2.6.2 before doing it again :)

Re:Of course...

[Shazow]

... it gets released the minute I've installed 2.6.0.

Perhaps I'll wait until at least 2.6.2 before doing it again :)

But but but... If you never install 2.6.1, then 2.6.2 may never come out! The fate of the world depends on you!!

- shazow

Re:Of course...

[Anonymous Coward]

The real question is, now that 2.6 is in unstable, will 2.4 become the default kernel in stable?

Linus Flees

[TedCheshireAcad]

Linus Flees! The time of judgement is upon us. Oh, repent!

Back in my day..

[clifgriffin]

We didn't have all these kernel updates...and we's liked it that way!

</bitter young man>

Let me get this straight...

[clifgriffin]

I download it, double click on the .exe, click next a few times and restart? Thanks, Clif

Re:Let me get this straight...

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

It looks like you're trying to upgrade your Kernel. Would you like to:

1. make gconfig?
2. make clean bzImage modules modules_install?
3. copy system files to /boot?
4. install a bootloader?

I've got my eye on you, australia

[MC_Cancer_Pants]

*Watches as linus releases an embedded back-door to make a supercomputer to bring rise to the new world power, Australia*

Problem with 2.6.1

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, you see, my BLT drive just went AWOL and I got this real big presentation due tomorrow for Mr. Kawsaki and if I don't get it in he'll ask me to commit Harry Carry. Could you read me the numbers on your version? It's the thing that you get when you type 'uname -a'

Oh wait, we are all about reality here. My mistake.

Re:Problem with 2.6.1

[Epeeist]

> my BLT drive

You put bacon, lettuce and tomato inside your drive? What do you put in your sandwiches?

Hmmmm....

[Soko]

I'm going to be in Australia (and on airplanes) for the week, but we're
all in the capable hands of Andrew, so why worry? The fact that I'm
fleeing the country should in no way be construed as anything sinister at
all, no siree. Nope. I'm innocent, and nobody saw me do it.

Linus is not only a great project manager, system architect and coder, he's funny as hell too.

(If that isn't an underhanded slap in the back of the head of Dalek McBride, I don't know what is. "I'll be in Oz all week, try the veal!!")

I hope SCO sticks around for a while just for the comedy factor. :-)

Soko

Release and Run

[Dagrush]

So he releases the kernel and runs away. what does he know that we don't?

Dammit!

[Saint Aardvark]

I just downloaded everything for -rc3 last night, compiled before going to bed, and was going to copy bzImage into place right now. And now this.

Me: How many fingers do you have on your right hand?
Linus: What?
Me: Oh, how I have prepared for this moment. The coding, the studying, the kernel crashes, never seeing the sun...
Linus: What the hell are you talking about?
Me: My name is Saint Aardvark the Carpeted. You killed my kernel. Prepare to die.
Linus: How the hell did you find me? Did Darl send you?
Me: My name is Saint Aardvark the Carpeted. You killed my kernel. Prepare to die.
Linus: ...All right, I can see you're upset. How much would it take to clear this up? Patches? A syctl named after you? The head of Alan Cox?
Me: My name is Saint Aar--
Linus: Stop saying that! Guards!
Me: --killed my kernel.
Linus: What do you want?
Me: I want my -rc3 kernel back, you son of a bitch.

Actually

[Czernobog]

This is a way to make the Windows 85% desktop share vanish overnight.
Just compile the most expansive possible kernel. Package it and "sell" it to cnet as the p2p app to have. Include boot loader.
No one reads warnings/lisenses anyway...
And voila! 85% linux on the world's desktops overnight! And what a night it will be!
I pity Dell support and the Indians....

Re:important fixes summary

[lawpoop]

And most importantly:

• [PATCH] USB: Add Lego USB Infrared Tower driver
• [PATCH] USB: fix up formatting problems in the legotower driver.Basically fixed up spaces to tabs problems.
• [PATCH] USB: give legotower driver a real USB minor, and remove unneeded ioctl function.

Now I can finally get my legotower working!

Re:UML?

[gl4ss]

well..

there is a project on sourceforge http://line.sourceforge.net/

* LINE Is Not an Emulator

LINE executes unmodified Linux applications on Windows by intercepting Linux system calls. The Linux applications themselves are not emulated. They run directly on the CPU just like all other Windows applications.

Status
Current version: 0.5
Release date: May 29, 2001

LINE IS ALPHA SOFTWARE *

though, now I should get off my ass and compile 2.6.1..

Re:UML?

[Anonymous Coward]

... cursed to a Windows wokstation by corporate policy.

WTF?

I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.

I know how to tell facts from marketing fluff. Now, here are the facts as they're found by SEVERAL INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INSTITUTES:

Expenses for file-server workloads under Windows, compared to LinuxOS:

• Staffing expenses were 33.5% better.
  
• Training costs were 32.3% better.
  

They compared Microsofts IIS to the Linux 7.0 webserver. For Windows, the cost was only:

• $40.25 per megabit of throughput per second.
  
• $1.79 per peak request per second.
  

Application development and support costs for Windows compared to an opensores solution like J2EE:

• 28.2% less for large enterprises.
  
• 25.0% less for medium organizations.
  

A full Windows installation, compared to installing Linux, on an Enterprise Server boxen:

• Is nearly three hours faster.
  
• Requires 77% fewer steps.
  

Compared to the best known opensores webserver "Red Hat", Microsoft IIS:

• Has 276% better peak performance for static transactions.
  
• Has 63% better peak performance for dynamic content.
  

These are hard numbers and 100% FACTS! There are several more where these came from.

Who do you think we professionals trust more?
Reliable companies with tried and tested products, or that bedroom coder Thorwalds who publicly admits that he is in fact A HACKER???

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I've always loved

[llamalicious]

Linus' comments in changelogs... ...snip...

<torvalds@home.osdl.org>
Fix silly mremap test.
Get off the drugs, Linus.

Windows Software That Doesn't Require Admin Priv.

[MuParadigm]

Have you tried Solitaire?

Re:Nvidia drivers

[ColaMan]

You'll need to run the NVIDIA installer with the --extract-only argument to untar it, then cd usr/src/nv and patch -p1 the diff file and then cp Makefile.nvidia Makefile. Then just run make install in the top-level directory of the nvidia installer and it'll build and install a 2.6.1-compatible module.

Don't forget to wave the sacrificial rubber chicken in an anti-clockwise direction over your processor while it compiles. If you wave the chicken clockwise you'll get a *lot* of segfaults and kernel panics.

Oh, and the compiled code will run 20% faster if you build it on a full moon or winter solstice, so plan ahead!