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Kernel 2.6.1 Released

Posted by michael on from the stable-goodness dept.

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...

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  1. Re:Besides Debian, What distros have 2.6.x ? by SteevR · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gentoo as always I'm sure ;-)

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  2. important fixes summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    To Sum it up:

    o lots of USB-Updates, eg. for storage-devices and BUGS
    o seeking in /proc/net/tcp fixed
    o some more use-after-free()-fixes
    o [libata promise] fix another ugly bug (for those who use it)
    o lots of misc small fixes
    o lots of ARM stuff
    o dvb: Update DVB core (and more stuff, for those video-people)
    o Fix via686a/KX133 TSC failure (for ppl with an Abit KA7/KA7-100 etc)
    o Fix memleak on execve failure (memleaks are always bad)
    o cpuqfreq stuff/additions
    o "at least" one important X86-64 fix
    o mremap() security fix

  3. Some facts 'n figures by bwindle2 · · Score: 5, Informative
    This patch weighs in at 4.1 megs... there are 998 files changed, 40596 insertions, 50838 deletions.

    That's a heck of a lot of changes for a "stable" kernel.

  4. Re:STILL waiting for... by jtshaw · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go to the Low-level SCSI drivers in the kernel. It is under the Device Drivers->SCSI Devices section. There exists and option that might make you happy:

    [*] Serial ATA (SATA) support
    ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support (EXPERIMENTAL) (NEW)
    Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support
    Promise SATA support (NEW)
    VIA SATA support

  5. BitTorrent... by teoruiz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here.

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  6. Install module-init-tools! Or you will get errors! by khasim · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know many people will not read the documentation so I'm posting it here.

    You need module-init-tools with the 2.6.x series.