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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.