Kernel 2.6.1 Released

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Posted by michael on Friday January 9, 2004 @01:59AM 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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Re:Slackware by Enry · 2004-01-09 02:07 · Score: 4, Insightful

By 2.6.x ready, I hope that means that the existing 2.4.x kernel includes the devmapper patch so that you can go from LVM1 to LVM2. No other distros seem to have thought about that particular upgrade yet.
Finally, the patch party is over (for now). by graf0z · 2004-01-09 02:23 · Score: 4, Insightful
2.4-patches i regulary used:
- UML
- ipsec
- ebtables & bridge-netfilter
- robert love's preemptable patch
- LSM-hooks (which make not everybody happy:grsecurity, RSBAC
- LS-module SE-linux
- filesystem-encryption
- apci 2.5 backports
- Kernel .config
- DVB-support
I got really tired of applying combinations of those patches to newest kernel source (due to security issues). They 're now all included to 2.6! Only MPPE-support seems still to lack.
They must have beaten up Linus to get all those accepted ...
/graf0z.
Re:cygwin by $rtbl_this · 2004-01-09 02:46 · Score: 2, Insightful

This is why we need a "funny" metamod option for all moderations: sometimes the moderation is funnier than the post.

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Re:STILL waiting for... by JanneM · 2004-01-09 03:01 · Score: 3, Insightful

Well, no distribution uses the 2.6 kernel yet (it is only a month old, after all). All of them are still using the 2.4 kernel - and while some of them do backport stuff from development kernels (like Redhat moving the new threading lib to their distro), none would likely move something so disruptive as a new IDE subsystem to 2.4.

That said, the next redhat distro (Fedora Core 2) will use the 2.6 kernel and will be out in April or thereabouts. So, you will not need to wait for too long to get good support for your hardware.

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Re:Besides Debian, What distros have 2.6.x ? by Nothinman · 2004-01-09 05:28 · Score: 2, Insightful

I've been using it since test9 and havn't had any major issues.

And on top of that, if noone uses it until 2.6.15 how will any of the bugs get found? The kernel developers have been using it since 2.5.x so they've probably found all the major bugs dealing with the hardware they all use, the testing base has to be widened to find the odd bugs and that's why 2.6.0 was released when it was.