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Configuring the 2.6 Linux Kernel

An anonymous reader writes "This article is the first in a series by William von Hagen on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel, with a special emphasis on the primary issues in migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel. Bill is the author of Linux Filesystems, Hacking the TiVo, SGML for Dummies, Installing Red Hat Linux 7, and is the coauthor of The Definitive Guide to GCC (with Kurt Wall) and The Mac OS X Power Users Guide (with Brian Profitt)." This looks to be a good series for anyone planning to migrate to Linux 2.6, and having done just that myself, I'll attest to wanting more documentation along the way.

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  1. Re:SCTP support by noselasd · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes. I'm using it. Its in 2.6 and the latest 2.4..

  2. Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 by tunah · · Score: 5, Funny

    At the risk of sounding like yet another gentoo zealot:
    Gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo!

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  3. Re:The Communist-Linux Connection by boudie · · Score: 3, Funny

    We all know that China will bury the United States within ten years. It's a fact of life. Either get used to it or stop buying their shoes. And if using Microsoft is patriotic, I guess there just isn't any hope for the whole goddamned United States of Amerika.

  4. just in time by POds · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seems like just in time, hopfuly some future articles will give some insight into how to get ISAPNP sounds cards to work. For some reason my ISAPNP OPL3SA2 cards can not be found when i either compile support into the kernel or into loadable modules...

    seems like a few other people have this problem. Does anyone know the solution? Will i have to write the addresses of all the ports manualy and switch off ISAPNP for OPL3SA2?

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  5. Re:is it so much different than 2.4? by Tongue+In+A+Box · · Score: 2, Funny

    You need 2.6 on a P1 about as much as you'd need a 500-hp enginge in a Yugo

  6. Re:The Communist-Linux Connection by Sire+Enaique · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, it's perfectly clear now. The FSF is a secret society filled with mutant commies!

    Send in the clones!

    The Computer is your friend!

  7. Re:Usability? by bdeclerc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Soooo... you wouldn't want me to say he had a MIDI interface connected to the USB Bus of his PC Computer? ;-)

  8. Re:2.6 breaks KVM support by bdeclerc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, it's ready for the masses, but the masses shouldn't be installing their own kernels, they should wait for the distro's to provide them with install CD's, and you can be pretty sure that this stuff wil work there...

    Could you please point me to the click-n-drool option button in Windows2000 that allows me to enable command-line completion? What, I have to manually edit the registry? D00d, Windoze isn't ready for the masses...

  9. Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 by crywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo mandrake MANDRAKE aah hat ooh red hat

    with many apologies to everyone.

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  10. Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 by atomic-penguin · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought debian was still using the 2.2 tree :)

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  11. Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 by McGarnacle · · Score: 2, Funny
    You can see a working gentoo today at: gentoo.poorfolks.org or www.poorfolks.org...click on gentoo to go to Enterprise Edition.

    Um, I *have* a working gentoo, today. Or do you mean a working gentoo using NPTL? If that's the case, then yeah, your apache test page appears to be working very well.

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  12. Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 by golgotha007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought debian was still using the 2.2 tree :)

    ya, only if you're using the unstable packages... /me ducks!

  13. Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 by Lord+of+Ironhand · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm supposed to be installing a virus scanner on my father's PC right now, but bursting into hysterical laughter is a pretty convincing sign to everyone here that I'm reading that "stoopid geek site" again. Damn you!