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Linux Kernel 2.6.3 Has Been Released [updated]

Posted by timothy on from the shhhh dept.

justinarthur writes "At 04:36 UTC, Linux kernel version 2.6.3 has been made available. As is typical, downloaders are advised to utilize a mirror upon file availability. There are many changes from version 2.6.2, including recent ALSA patches, XFS fixes, and updates in many other areas." Update: 02/18 14:15 GMT by T : Peter Willis points out that kernel 2.4.25 (changelog) was also released, and writes "Incidentally, a security advisory dated today states there is an exploit in kernels up to 2.4.24 and 2.6.2, but the two releases today don't seem to reflect any changes, so get ready to patch up as soon as a patch pops up. More details on the vulnerability here."

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  1. Great work! by Michael+Iatrou · · Score: 5, Interesting
    $ cat ChangeLog-2.6.2 | grep -xP "<.*@.*>" | wc -l
    1105
    $ cat ChangeLog-2.6.3 | grep -xP "<.*@.*>" | wc -l
    1260
    155 more bug fixes from the last release... (yeah, I know, not a really sophisticated method...)
  2. Gentoo disappointment... by dmayle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I must admit to being a little disappointed right now with my Gentoo installation. I saw the article here, ran an emerge sync, and 2.6.3 is still marked as unstable. I guess I'll have to wait 15 minutes before I can install it... ;)

    On a slightly related sidenote, whichever developer it was who "broke" support for the 105th key (the "Europe" key) in 2.6.1 should be drawn and quartered. It took me forever to figure out why my tilde key wasn't working. I created a text file called tilde with the character in it so that everytime I needed a tilde, I could copy and paste it... Aaarrggh

    1. Re:Gentoo disappointment... by dmayle · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I don't think it was that 2.6.1 supported the 103rd key, but that X doesn't. When I had 2.6.1 installed, X couldn't distinguish the key from the PrtScrn key, so there was no way to change the map file to support the key...

  3. distributions by HoneyBunchesOfGoats · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any idea when we'll start seeing 2.6 as the kernel included in the big distributions?

  4. Is any distro already with 2.6 kernel series? by ron_lima · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is there already any distro with the kernel 2.6 series? I'm still waiting for the response of the market before going for kernel 2.6 yet. My 2.4.24 is really stable and running fine, but I'm anxious to see the threads improvements in 2.6...

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  5. Nforce fix went in by motown · · Score: 4, Interesting

    [ACPI] nforce2 timer lockup from Maciej W. Rozycki

    Oooh, does that mean I can finally enable both APIC and ACPI support in the kernel without experiencing lockups on my Nforce2-based system? I've been waiting for quite a while for this patch to go in. :)

    But weren't there supposed to be two (complementary) patches for this problem out there?

    len.brown@intel.com

    Thanks Intel guy, for allowing this AMD fix to go in. :D

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  6. Re:Radeon users will be happy by HoldmyCauls · · Score: 2, Interesting

    435 is a low number to you? For how long have you been working at Pixar? My Radeon Mobility M7 *occasionally* gets 70 or higher at that resolution, with that amount of video RAM. BTW, the reason it never *feels* like 435 fps is probably because you're running ATi's glxgears which somehow does *wonderfully* for testing. Tuxracer, RtCW, Unreal2003, whatever else you're using, don't have the same mysterious code that ATi's glxgears does, IIUC.

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  7. Re:Radeon users will be happy by green+pizza · · Score: 2, Interesting

    However, I'm still only getting 435fps in glxgears with a 16MB graphics card at 1024x768 with DRI definitely on.

    I've heard that glxgears is a terrible benchmark, but it piqued my curiousity enough to fire it up on my PowerBook (Radeon Mobility 9600, Mac OS X 10.3.2 w/ optional X11 installed). With the window geometry set to 1024x768 I'm getting ~1800 to ~2700 fps, it really bounces around. Given that glxgears doesn't use any texturing nor any other wizbang new features, I'm guessing that something's not right on your end. Maybe it's even rendering with software?