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Linux Kernel 2.6.4 Released
justinarthur writes "The Linux kernel version 2.6.4 has been released at 03:16 UTC. Included in the changes from version 2.6.3 are fixes to XFS support, Wide Area Networking, USB connectivity, and IEEE1394 connectivity. To download a copy, it is recommended that one utilizes a Linux Kernel Archives mirror. Linus Torvalds' announcement to the Linux Kernel Mailing list concerning this release is available here." Reader k-zed points out that Linux 1.0 was released in March 1994, ten years ago.
suck it!
FP!!! Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
so ...?
Yeah, SCO's gonna claim this one has their code too.
Hmm.. I don't see it on ftp.sco.com yet. What lousy service for $699.
Trolling is a art,
from a 33.6 kbps connection.
No kidding!
How big is a gorilla penis?
9"?
10"?
A gorilla's willy is just 1.5" long!!!!! Shocking huh?
10 years and that guy is only on version 2?
Linus, or Bagle and Netsky......
So, we're back to anouncing every point release of the Linux kernel now are we? Thanks for that, Slashmeat.
Does it run Linux?
(Ok, sorry. I know its not funny anymore.)
"...a generation of kids has grown up thinking Trance is the shittiest music since country and western." - Paul van Dyk
... hasn't even gotten finished compiling the last 2.6 kernel release *grumbling* *adding yet another patch to my to-do list*
... I was thinking "I don't need this kernel upgrade, 2.6.3 has been working great for me..." I find in the changelog:
[IRDA]: Add stir4200 driver.
doh... finally added support for one of my usb-irda dongles.
Damn.
FLR
Remove sooper sekret SCO IP?
I have discovered a truly marvelous sig, unfortunately the sig limit is too small to contain i
The name of this release amongst the core developers was "Heathen Chemistry.". Alan Cox came up with it - it's was inside joke about british pop/rock phenomenon.
has there been any talk of removing the alleged SCO code? or rumors? i guess linus wouldn't make a statement about it now, since there's the lawsuit going on
Oh no! Someone leaked their source! Call Microsoft, maybe they can help track down who leaked this to the internet...
oh, wait... nevermind.
Check out the best P2P sharing website: MEDIACHEST.COM
What happened to the "this page generated for X by a Y of Z" generator? I miss the cadres of yellow kittens!
usermode linux runs linux on linux.
So, the answer is yes.
Odd. I'm still stuck on my 2.4.xx version. I tried to upgrade a few distros to 2.6 and things didn't go very well (kernel panic)
It seems to me that the number of users who have picked up 2.6 x compared to the number that picked up 2.4 from 2.2 has greatly diminished on many of the distro mailing lists. From this it seems that either the migration is uglier than anticipated, or that more people are just willing to sit back and wait for their distro to provide them with all their needs.
Who will be the first to ship kernel 2.6 by default?
this is the first time i've installed the kernel and had it running before the slashdot announcement!
i just checked the new one after lunch. blasted centrino ultralights need all this new stuff in them.
I think i'll go celebrate "I beat slashdot's unnecessary kernel release announcement day!"
Who was the dickwad who modded that down???
Wonder if we'll see reiser4 in 2.6.
You can test it now, but it is very experimental.
Maybee they'll merge it with 2.7
I haven't gotten 2.6.3 compiled yet, and here comes 2.6.4. Hell, I'm still running 2.6.0-gentoo. What's with this heightened release schedule? I mean, gcc is only so fast on my machine.
This is not the sig you're looking for.
2.6.4-rc1 ChangeLog:
d .org/msg58421.html
[libata] catch, and ack, spurious DMA interrupts
Hardware issue on Intel ICH5 requires an additional ack sequence over and above the normal IDE DMA interrupt ack requirements. Issue described in post to freebsd list: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebs
Since the bug workaround only requires a single additional PIO or MMIO read in the interrupt handler, it is applied to all chipsets using the standard libata interrupt handler.
Credit for research the issue, creating the patch, and testing the patch all go to Jon Burgess.
---------
Woo, this is very exciting. If you had problems with SATA & ICH5... this probably fixes those problems.
I aimed the Preview button ;)
.2 to .4 for example? IE: Im running on 2.4.20 and everything works fine. For the kernel I apply the "its not broke, dont fix it" rule.. but Im just curious!
On a more serious note, maybe this was asked before many times, but whats the real benefit of upgrading from
"...a generation of kids has grown up thinking Trance is the shittiest music since country and western." - Paul van Dyk
Now, I'm using XP, and it's easy to see how 10 years of development have consistently innovated-not in a direction I'd like, and not in a safe or secure manner, but it's innovation.
What has Linux got but 10 years of incremental patches? I feel the "if it's open source, it's perfect" ideology is the reason Windows is still the desktop OS of choice. Linux fanatics need to be able to step back and look objectively at Linux's many flaws, because until they can do that, and make it idiot proof, it's going to stay out of people's homes and offices. Geek elitism is Microsoft's best ally. Just as Windows should let me run it and tinker, Linux should let me run it and not have to tinker
If Linux was any good, they wouldn't have to release a 2.6.1,2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4 so quickly after a major release. .0 release, or the product is shit and full of bugs. It's probbaly both.
Either they are stupid and putting in new features in a supposedly 'stable' product just weeks after the
This is why Linux is crap and real people would ignore it.
i hope i can get an rpm later for MDK 10
cause i think they use some odd kernel hacks
i guess however it does give mandrake time to prepare for the proper release as there will be enough reasons now for people to want to upgrade to the standard retail release.
will this kernel be available in cooker?
spend money here
I see a lot of new kernel releases which is great because it provides fixes and shows the work of a growing OS being done but is updating the kernel everytime it comes out only for hardcore users?
Sure I could update it everytime, but will I benefit from it if I'm just joe schmoe user and everything is running fine(no cricital patches needed)?
Black cat, searing pain, flames...? I must be in Heaven! - Homer Simpson
all it needs now is some love and it'll be ready for my machine.
I was wondering - suppose I developed both Linux and BSD drivers to control my car. Which would the car go faster under ?
Is that some kind of plea to Jesus to get SCO off their back? Or is it a reference to Linus giving his creation to the world that whosoever believeth in it shall keep it's code alive forever?
All hardcore porn is GAY. Yes, that means you. Looking at a dick and being impressed by it is gay.
Swallowing your own cum while anally fingering yourself, on the other hand, is NOT gay. It is entirely Right and Proper, and should be encouraged.
I thank you for your attention.
I'm not a troll, but I play one on Slashdot
Copy down the numbers from the kernel panic.
I know it's a pain, but we really need this.
If you're terribly lazy, just get EIP, ESP,
and any names you see.
Mail that to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org and
expect a few questions about your hardware.
That's not so difficult, is it? This gets the
bug fixed so that the next release will run on
your system.
could someone hook me up with some gay linux erotic fiction please?
o /michael/jonkatz/cowboyneal/rms/esr/linus
preferably:
taco/cowboyneal
taco/jonkatz
tac
taco + the GNAA
cheers.
Experimental ebuilds of 2.6.4 are avaliable for Gentoo. Remember, these are still in the "~", so upgrade at your own risk. 2.6.3 is in stable gentoo though, so get that if you want to upgrade to 2.6 safely.
do we have native SATA support? that empty 10 gig partition on my Raptor is gathering dust. heh.
(don't respond with replies telling me to recompile a kernal with the sata drivers built in... I'm a total linux kn0b. trying to learn, but since getting the raptor, I've been using a LNX-BBC off of CD)
I got 2.6.4 compiled installed in under 5 minutes. It's working great. No problems here.
no "imagine a beow.. clust.. of these" ? You are sooo slowing down
In the OSS world, major releases are counted in the minor numbers, so 2.6 is what a commercial company would have called 26.
How sad that I first set up an ethernet lan with linux in 1995 at college, yet my network I run at work uses windows 'cause I have to use applications that run only on windwows.
whois "www.tiki-hut.com"
remember the 3 degrees theory when it first came out in '95?
any techies from capitol college in laurel maryland lets get a journal goin on slashdotI have been getting USB Error messages with 2.4.25 and 2.6.3 about my UHCI controller being halted and some -110 error with my mouse. Strangly enough my USB card supports both OHCI and UHCI and only uses the OHCI controller (cat /proc/interrupts shows no UHCI activity). I hope this Kernel will fix whatever is going on because for me it's either a USB mouse or plug one into the serial port (no ps/2 port.)
At least when I plug in a USB mouse into a Linux Box it doesn't care what port it's plugged into. If I change what port the mouse is plugged into on Windows 98 however, first tells me there is no mouse, then it will detect new hardware, then it finds the USB mouse in the other USB port. One of my friends complained about the same problem on his system which is running a newer, better version of Windows.
Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.
There is a high proportion of posts here (when I'm writing this, at least) highlighting the difficulties of upgrading the kernel to 2.6.4. Surely, until there's an easy and foolproof way of doing this, the up-take of linux as a desktop OS is going to be slower. Whether microsoft do a better job in windows is debatable, but the bottom line is, it takes 30 minutes to install a service pack (which can change any functionality in windows, so it's a comparable procedure), and after the upgrade, 99.9% of machines function fine.
It's things like this that puts "normal" people and companies off using Linux on the desktop. To linux guys and developers it's not a big deal, but imagine if you were some granny somewhere - it'd scare the pants off you and if something went wrong, nigh-on impossible to fix.
It's the robustness and cohesion of linux that needs addressing. Once that's attained to a sufficient level, system-wide upgrades can be effected. When I say robustness I don't mean operationally (there's no doubt nothing is more robust), but when it comes to doing anything to the OS. That's when the "fun" starts :-P
Again, this isn't pro-microsoft and anti-linux. This is just an immediate reaction to seeing the posts trickle in to this discussion.
I am waiting on 2.6.4.5.4.333a I hear there will be good things with that.
Is there a handy place to find a listing of ALL changes since 2.6.0? I missed the change logs for a couple version and am trying to figure out if my nforce2 stuff was ever added (wasn't in 2.6.1).
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
What ever you do do not use linux. It doesn't like you.
um, does it mean there were dangerous bugs?
in practical terms, I am running 2.6.3 now and I use XFS on all my partitions, do I need to upgrade to prevent my disk from possible "bad stuff" happening to it?
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells, "The Outline of History"
I found this Changelog entry rather funny. Looooong story about stir4200 driver - then another commit that adds stir4200.c:
[IRDA]: Add stir4200 driver.
After a long maturation, this is time to send you the latest
version of the stir4200 USB driver. Initially started by Paul Stewart,
modified by Martin Diehl and me, and later partially rewriten by
Stephen Hemminger.
The hardware has many quirks. This is the first version that
work reliably at SIR and mostly work at FIR. We may never get optimal
operation from this hardware due to its pecularities, but at least its
now usable.
[IRDA]: Forgot to add stir4200.c in previous commit.
my other sig is a 500 page novel
YOU FAIL IT
Nice try, though.
Dave240 is a troll and a flamebaiter, here is another post he made earlier. I suggest that you add him as your foe and mod bomb him.
All people who actually know Linux know that every distribution has an update system, Dave420 knows this, but he is lying to karma whore (notice he is using is karma bonus) by getting karma from antilinuxists with mod points. Even Gentoo Linux dosen't make you manualy compile the kernel anymore.
So mod this troll down, let him get attacked by yet another windows worm!
Finally they've included mdpart. This means anyone with a SATA RAID motherboard can use its full potential. Excellent :-)
Yeah, I just mentioned to someone that I will likely be going to 2.6 once it goes above 2.6.5. I think I switched to 2.4 w/the pre kernels. It had some support that I wanted. 2.6 isn't offering anything that I desperately need.
I don't use Linux w/X, I don't really use it for much other tahn a webserver, IRC, and email. It's basically just a way for me to do IRC and email from work.
What advantages would I have using 2.6 with that setup?
I've just got 2.6.3 working - even my flashdisk.
I'll pass on this one, I think.
Sig: Closed for refurbishment.
That was almost 12 hours before the story was posted! How am I supposed to wait that long to upgrade my kernel?
To understand recursion,
you must first understand recursion.
I'm still stuck on my 2.4.xx version.
"Stuck" as in you're stuck with a real deficiency, or "stuck" as in you don't have uber-geek 2.6 bragging rights?
From this it seems that either the migration is uglier than anticipated, or that more people are just willing to sit back and wait for their distro to provide them with all their needs.
You see two possibilities. Please consider at least a third option: Many people don't really care about 2.6 and are running 2.2 and especially 2.4 very successfully, not missing support for anything, and not disappointed with their current performance.
We have servers that were upgraded from 2.2 to 2.4 for real (ie, USB) reasons only 4 months ago. Right now, I honestly don't see any reason to be excited about 2.6. Don't get me wrong; in a few months, I would almost certainly use 2.6 on a new install, but on most existing 2.4 machines, 2.4 ain't broke, so I ain't gonna waste time, money, and risk exposure to 'fix' it.
if you were trying to control a Hearse.
From the Changelog
[PATCH] kthread primitive
From: Rusty Russell
These two patches provide the framework for stopping kernel threads to
allow hotplug CPU. This one just adds kthread.c and kthread.h, next
one uses it.
Most importantly, adds a Monty Python quote to the kernel.
Haven't had a chance to pull in the source. Anyone know what this is?
Did you read any of the many guides you can find with a quick Google search? You need only have proper versions of various kernel utils, sometimes swap needs to be reformatted if it's a really old system..and of course you have to make sure you enable all the right stuff, just as with any other kernel build...
Please help metamoderate.
I don't even know of anyone running 2.4 anymore actually. I mean, why not upgrade?
I finally got around to compiling 2.6.3 last night; ran into some issues.
its much more responsive than 2.4 for desktop use
The desktop is definitely more responsive, but (at least for me) at the expense of everything else. MPlayer, xmms, and anything that's remotely timing-intensive is unusable (xmms actually skips while playing MP3s, and Mplayer prints the message "Your computer is TOO SLOW to play this file" when playing anything I've got. Note that everything works fine under 2.4.)
I went through the various mailing lists looking for suggestions, with no luck; every suggestion is OK (checked drive DMA, kernel settings, X nice level, etc.) - interestingly enough, one post I read said to try glxgears.. I did, and it runs better under 2.6 - constant frame rate, regardless of what else I'm doing, whereas in 2.4, even moving the mouse drops the frame rate.)
So it's back to 2.4 for me. I'll probably try 2.6.4, to see if the situation has improved, but for the mean time, I'll stick with 2.4.
This would be 5, insightful 10 years ago, but not now. Has this guy heard of package managers? Every linux distribution has a an update utillity, which is intended for grandma and joe, while development kernels are for developers, who will package it in a joe proof click an icon, enter your root password and enjoy package (see, that wasn't so hard)
I bet this is just a recycled troll. I reccommend ANYONE who has heard that Linux is hard to use to see the truth by downloading Knoppix and witness how in just 30 seconds from boot your at a fully configured desktop with hundreds of applications, it just works! Lets see Microsoft do that! So this post is trying to spread old rumours about Linux.
FOR THE LAST TIME! LINUX IS NOT HARD TO USE! If you do think it is, reply with what was the last distribution you tried, I have found that 95% of complaints that Linux is hard to use is due to flaky or old linux distributions!
I've been waiting for this release for awhile now, because 2.6.3 had a bug with disc media drives and SCSI drivers. Essentially, I couldn't use or burn any CD's.
2.6.2 => 2.6.3 completely broke ALSA on my system. I haven't seen any ALSA patches go in after 2.6.3. Anybody have info on that? Is there another big ALSA merge coming soon?
They've fixed that f**king annoying problem where I can't boot if either AGPART or the framebuffer are enabled. Why would a simple Riva TNT2 card cause problems where there were none before???
I'm amazing. You aren't. SUCK IT
So I went to the 2.6 series when they first came out. I was very happy with it at work, there was a noticable bump in speed...mainly in starting applications.
/dev entries. So no reading CD's, DVD, or writing CD's. I honestly don't do it that much anyway, so I didn't spend a lot of time trouble shooting it. Plus after a day at work trouble shooting problems I don't feel like doing it at home.
/dev and the /sys stuff is not mountable. Enabling USB debugging just shows me that things are messed up but does not really help much.
At home it was another story. Sure the speed increases I noticed at work were still there but there were some fairly large problems.
First, neither my DVD reader or CD burner were assigned
Second, I have not been able to mount my USB flash drive. It is an MP3 player which I changed CD's on weekly so I am not listening to the same stuff at the gym every day. Well after a few weeks of Outkast it was time for a change so I sat down to fix the problem. Two hours later, I just went back to the 2.4 kernel.
I have gotten as far as getting the kernel to assign sda to my usb device but it never creates an entry in
I also started to get annoyed with all the SCSI emulation needed to mount a USB storage device. I don't understand how Linus can hate SCSI emulation so much when it comes to burning CD's yet it is perfectly acceptable to use it to mount a USB disk. Seems a bit hypocritical, but then again...he did sort of invent Linux so I guess I can cut him some slack.
So all in all, I have been disappointed in the 2.6.x series of kernels and if they are the one's that are supposed to take the desktop market by storm then I think Linux on the desktop is in trouble. It is no wonder Redhat and SuSE are staying away from it for the most part right now. It is going to take both of them a lot of work to get everything working properly I would imagine.
Am I the only one who went back?
Upgrading Windows 2000 to XP does NOT take 2 mouse clicks! I know because I have done it. It takes a lot of sweat and tears. I had to enter a CD key, had to download a TON of security updates for the INSTALLER, had to reboot, it failed to detect a lot of my hardware, oh and it forgot to install critical kernel files. Ooops, installl from scratch, I had to repartition everything, enter my CD-key, had to go through "activation", download all the security patches and new drivers, all while on the Linux side I opened the pacakge manager (3 clicks), click upgrade system (another click) and excute then continue (total 6 clicks).
So that is 6 clicks, then waited half hour for the downloads, No multiple reboots like Windows!
So there you have it, PROOF THAT Linux is easier than Windows to upgrade, and that Dave420 is a lying troll!
Because the parent was written by an asshat.
Its very obvious that you should be waiting for your particular distro to put out a pre-tested version that has 2.6 in it. So you had problems with CD burning and your USB device. Stuff happens. Many others have moved to 2.6 and have all of their devices working and are enjoying a nice boost in speed.
"if they are the one's that are supposed to take the desktop market by storm then I think Linux on the desktop is in trouble"
I'm sorry but your particular experience doesn't mean what you think it does. Just because you had issues isn't the litmus test for Linux desktop use.
"It is no wonder Redhat and SuSE are staying away from it"
They aren't "staying away from it", they are currently testing it and will have distros with 2.6 out this year.
I know how it can be annoying when things don't work, but in this case regardless of your linux experience it very much sounds like you should stick with what works for now and wait until your distro vendor or community puts out a fully tested 2.6 release.
...why kernels are still not offered up via torrents yet?
Seems like it would help a lot.
Right now, I can't even connect to a use mirror. Grrr.
Yeah - they really should have waited for the final release of the last version of the linux kernel.
It might be insightful, but this post dosen't deserve Informative. Moderators who modded this up please reply to this post to cancel your mod points.
I had none of those problems, so here are some obvious questions.
What distro are you using?
What version of the kernel were you using?
Did you enable devfs, usb, etc?
Did you install the new module-init-tools?
What hardware do you have (exact model umbers).
I was wondering if anyone knew if these represent significant improvement.
anyone?
I'm still kinda starting out with Linux, etc., so I'm not really sure whether "IEEE1394 connectivity" means what I think it does. Please bear with me.
I haven't spent a lot of time tinkering with any of this, and wasn't sure if IEEE1394 was supported fully, partially, in customized kernels, manually set up...
Also, if someone actually reads this, does it make any sense for me to try to partition and install Knoppix on this drive, or should I put the OS on the internal drive?
Stats:
more point(less) release 'news'. You can tell that there is no news content by the fact that the top 20 comments are nothing to do with the release. Perhaps a more general discussion of Linux 2.6 development might be interesting?
Posters recognized by their sig,
Even Kernel 2.4.6 still locks up frequently on my Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard unless I specify the options "noapic nolapic" at boot time. Then the system runs flawlessly (even with ACPI-support).
I read somewhere that the problem currently lies in the BIOS, rather than in the kernel, and that some vendors have already released proper BIOS updates that add a "C1 disconnect" option, which supposedly does the trick.
Unfortunately, Asus has released no such update as of yet.
Does anyone here (perhaps one of the kernel developers involved) have any more details on this?
Can this problem eventually be solved in the kernel, even without any BIOS updates?
After all, as far as I understood it, the BIOS pretty much takes a back seat as soon as the kernel is running, right?
"Oooh, does that mean we get to kick some puffy white mad zionist butt?"
don't be such as ass. mandrake has said the offical 10 release will be much later. If you use a testing version, don't get all antsy because you were premature.
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
does linux have true preemption in the kernel yet? or are they still using the ugly hack with preemption points?
There a ton of dumb things that i can put up with in the OS like the truly horrid thread support ( which uses the system scheduler), the lack of a userlevel scheduler (and thus slow as hell) and the O(1) scheduler that is just round robin! but the lack of preemption is one of the things that made me move to OS X instead. oh yeah, and darwin does threading correctly.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Personally I never have any trouble downloading kernels (usually straight from kernel.org... they have a lot of bandwidth) but I usual don't download the day-of.
A kernel BitTorrent would probably work quick successfully. Not really so much because of the whole upload-while-you-download thing (not as important for such a small download), more because it makes it so easy to provide bandwidth and I bet there would be tons of seeds for something like the kernel.
Hopefully they fixed the ide-floppy module for the IOMEGA ZIP 100. I have to run the mount command twice before my zip disk get's mounted.
I can see this will cause futher trouble:
[netdrvr bonding] Cannot remove and re-enslave the original active slave
In TLB/ALB modes, when enslaving a slave that has the bond's mac
address, allow the operation if no other slave has that address.
Should be applied after the cleanup patch set.
So you first remove slaves, then re-enslave them? And you have "cleanup" operations? Omg...
Cheers,
Tels
Can you use the RAID controller? My motherboard has an ICH5-R. It implements a software RAID system. The system works fine with Linux when I set legacy mode in the BIOS. I would like to use its RAID functions.
Looking through the 2.6.4 changelog, it looks like there were problems with 2.6.3's e100 driver (which I have.) As my machine uses the network heavily (I've got about a dozen NFS mounts) this could be the reason that I was experiencing problems.
" As long as PC-unskilled people have to relate to [for them] uncomprehensible things as 'devfs', 'fstab' etc. etc., they'll shun/hate Linux."
.ini suddenly "comprehensible? Have the "friend of a friend, boy next door, tech support" stop giving advice like "edit this and everything will be all right" And if the complaints on the Windows forums are any indication. Why aren't people shunning Windows? I swear that people around here have more agendas than a politician.
Insightful? How's the above any different on Windows? Is the registry or
Like Debian GNU/Linux 'apt-get upgrade'? Any good modern Linux distribution does include a smooth OS update path. But upgrading from kernel 2.4.x to kernel 2.6.x is not something most people are going to want to do. It is not the equivilent of a "service pack." It is much more akin to an OS upgrade. Few expect that to go without a hitch... even on Windows.
It's things like this that puts "normal" people and companies off using Linux on the desktop. To linux guys and developers it's not a big deal, but imagine if you were some granny somewhere - it'd scare the pants off you and if something went wrong, nigh-on impossible to fix.
So when Windows breaks, Granny is capable of fixing it? Give me a break. She's lucky if she is able to format her harddrive and resinstall without a hitch.
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
Would this work with a Silicon Image 3114 controller? I saw something about 4-port support being fixed, so I might switch to it. Currently I'm forced to use the 3112 driver (with a hack in the pci_ids.h file so that it recognizes the device) because I kept getting system hangups with the sata_sil driver.
I have a RAID 0 config for nonvital Windows files on an NTFS partition. While it's not necessary, it would be nice to be able to access them in Linux at times.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
...if the laptop touchpad issues have been addressed since 2.6.3 - or if they're going to be?
Yeah and hopefully the Offical Mandrake 10 release will have Gnome 2.6!
These PR ratings are misleading. I benchmarked it against 2.6.3 and unsurprisingly it was in no way 0.0.1 better.
#emerge dev-gentoo-kernel :P
Actually, I don't even know if they've put one out yet, I just compiled 2.6.3-rc3 lastnight IIRC.. not worth my upgrade yet, I've had my share of issues already with 2.6. hehe
I wonder if they fixed this yet. I have an iRiver iFP-390T that I use as a UMS, but it hasn't been working correctly under Linux. Something about being marked removable when it isnt. Anyone have a patch?
John Hancock
Are you sure about the X nice level? Your symptoms sound exactly like what happened to me when I ran 2.6 for the first time, and my problem was the X nice level.
For 2.6, you want X to run at nice 0. Many Linux distros set X to nice -10 for kernel 2.4 and older, but for 2.6 that gums up the works.
Debian users can fix it like so:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
Then, when it asks you what X nice level you want, set it to zero.
steveha
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
"The Linux kernel version 2.6.4 has been released at 03:16 UTC. Included in the changes from version 2.6.3 are fixes to XFS support, Wide Area Networking, USB connectivity, and IEEE1394 connectivity."
Wow! Linux has bugs. From the way people worship Linux around here and criticize MS, you'd think Linux was bug free.
Run your car under Ninnle Linux!
Slackware 9.1 works for me. It doesn't include a 2.6.x kernel, but a kernel compiled from unmodified kernel.org sources works.
Slackware isn't fancy, but it generaly works.
Compile it under Ninnle! You'll be amazed! Under 30 seconds, at least on my old SX 25.
It cuts the kernel stack down to a single 4k page. There are performance advantages to doing this.
The main caveat is that drivers (and other kernel code, really) have to be very careful about their stack usage, or they run out of stack.
Consequently, badly written binary drivers with fat glue layers are right out...
DNA just wants to be free...
I'm still on 2.4 because 2.6 broke the ability to use DVD+RWs as a random access device. Anyone know if this will ever be ported to 2.6?
The breakage has something to do with ide-scsi
devfs isn't depracated, and won't be until a udev can fully replace it.
When i upgraded to 2.6.3 the asound.conf got trashed or wasnt recoginzed anymore so i did:
alsactl store
alsamix (set the volumes as u want)
aslactl store
And thats it, it will work the next time you boot.
http://securityportal.com.ar
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If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, where does the road paved with evil intentions lead to?
Maybe in 10 more years they'll get support for Truetype fonts and copy+paste.
Sheeet! How are we supposed to hear about this kind of stuff?! The Debian package kernel-image-2.6 didn't say anything about it! If only /. reported something more useful than the kernel releases...
:(
And it's really too bad, sounds from the FAQ that udev is a weak replacement for the brilliance that was devfs.
Am I the only one using a AMD k6 processor? There are debs for k7s, but nobody has gotten around to making one for a k6 yet. :(
Whenever I try to compile myself I get kernel panics. Oh well, 2.4.25's fine for now.
Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard anything positive about Windows ME. I never installed it myself, but from trying to tinker around with my uncle's laptop with ME installed, it is a nightmare. It is appropriately named ME because the system takes up so many resources (Ze RAM, it belongs to MEEEEE! was a joke some friends of mine made while helping me fix the stupid laptop). with 64 MB of ram, it stil ran incredibly slow, and crashed numerous times. With so much memory being taken up by the system, multitasking was impossible. IT seemed there was some sort of memory leak, as we watched the system eat up more and more memory until it froze up. We finally gave up, had my uncle back up his documents and a few games, then reformatted and installed Win XP (he was a noob, so I didn't feel like forcing Linux on him), and the system ran 10x better.
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