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Linux 2.6.9 Released

Posted by timothy on from the minor-changes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux 2.6.9 has been released. Read Linus's official announcement, and go get it!" Better yet, if you hanker for the upgrade, use one of the mirrors instead.

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  1. Re:Any Reasons to get it? by Gherald · · Score: 4, Interesting

    2.6.8 had some problems with tcp connections being broken, I hope they fixed that.

    And I need kernel >= 2.6.8 for forcedeth gigabit support...

    And tere are always little improvements... as soon as your distro packages 2.6.9 it makes since to upgrade but since there's no hurry just put in in your bootloader and wait till next reboot to load it....

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  2. I wonder... by brilinux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have been upgrading kernels ever two or so sub release (I am currently running 2.6.8.1). But it that really necessary? It seems that there is much more upgrading than there needs to be. Obviously, some people will need the new kernel, but it seems that often, once the kernel works well for my hardware, why should I keep upgrading? Any thoughts? I am probably overlooking something obvious.

    1. Re:I wonder... by dtfinch · · Score: 2, Interesting

      But it that really necessary?

      Not at all, but 2.6.8 is generally not as stable as say, 2.4.27. If you do something out of the ordinary or pull the plug at random times you may feel the effects of one of the many trickier bugs or misfeatures that may be fixed in newer versions.

  3. Re:Torrent? by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you /. the tracker, it doesn't help the torrent any. You'd need a multitracker solution.

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  4. Does the nvidia kernel module work? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Anybody know?... anybody?

  5. Buggy of Bug Free by gmhowell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lacking 'safe' vs. 'devel' kernel branches, what category does this point release fall into?

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  6. Re:Any Reasons to get it? by richie2000 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    since there's no hurry just put in in your bootloader and wait till next reboot to load it....

    I do that too. But once in a while something goes wrong and since it was ages since I updated the kernel and put it in like a grub timebomb, I've forgotten that I did it. Fun and games.

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  7. Updated UML Support by rimu+guy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    UML support was added to the 2.6 kernel a while back (2.5.34 in Sep 2002).

    Since then the mainline kernel has lagged behind the latest UML releases on user-mode-linux.sf.net.

    Over the 2.6.8 to 2.6.9 timeframe BlaisorBlade (aka Paolo Giarrusso) has worked with Andrew Morton and Jeff Dike to bring the mainline kernel up to date with the latest UML changes. (To the point where the 2.6.9 kernel is more current than the latest 'official' UML release). I would guess this was the biggest, in terms of lines of code, change in 2.6.9. Most of the changes just touched the 'um' architecture though. So changes are pretty isolated from other arch-es.

    This may be of interest to you if you run chrooted systems anywhere (UML may be more secure). Or if you are a kernel hacker (so much easier to debug things that run in a user process).

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  8. did it fix the cdrecord bug? by Oxide · · Score: 2, Interesting

    2.6.8 introduced a bug in which it makes k3b unable to detect the cd writers as normal user and would require root only.

    Has that been fixed in 2.6.9?