Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.

10 of 90 comments (clear)

  1. No go under Windows XP Sp2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows XP firewall says the download is not safe. Better stay away people, and wait until they distribute those on free CDs.

    1. Re:No go under Windows XP Sp2 by doctormetal · · Score: 5, Informative

      I>I'm going to compile this after work tonight with GCC 3.4 - wish me luck ;-)

      Selecting all my settings again in make menuconfig is going to take a while :-| I might see if I can use the old .config

      ever heard of make oldconfig? It creates a new .config based on your old one.

  2. 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....

    --
    The unofficial /. digest
  3. Re:Any Reasons to get it? by floamy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The notes you just glanced at only show the minor changes between 2.6.9-rc4 and 2.6.9. There were a lot of changes between 2.6.8[.1] and the 2.6.9 release.

  4. Re:Any Reasons to get it? by Fweeky · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are a bunch of important looking fixes for ppc64 and amd64, a fix for a swapd lockup, fixes for xfs and ext3.. most people should probably upgrade fairly quickly, I'd say.

  5. Torrent? by schnits0r · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does somebody have a torrent of this yet? If they do, coudl they posta link so we can slashdot it and downlaod it faster...wait, that sounded weird.

    --


    -------
    Support Indy Music. Buy
  6. Re:I wonder... by Stevyn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a gentoo user. I've compiled a new kernel twice this week. I'm not joking. 2.6.8-r9 and 2.6.8-r10.

    I don't need this new kernel. It's an obsession. we need a Linux Users Anonymous

  7. Re:Does the nvidia kernel module work? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    you have to peruse the nvidia linux forum for the fix. I forget what it was exactly, but you have to put a #include in some kernel file, recompile the kernel, reboot, and then the nvidia installer will work.

    the real fix will require nvidia to release an update for their driver.

  8. Re:I wonder... by HawkingMattress · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, gentoo now shifts version numbers to make sure you're not out of date when you finished compiling.

  9. NVIDIA DRIVERS DO WORK by tuxq · · Score: 4, Informative

    This works ... I grabbed it out of a patch file...
    Add this to arch/i386/mm/init.c
    On line 43 right below unsigned int __VMALLOC_RESERVE = 128 20;
    add this line...
    ----- Begin -----

    EXPORT_SYMBOL(__VMALLOC_RESERVE);

    ----- End -----

    nVidia drivers WILL work. I'm using 2.6.9 and 6111 nvidia drivers right now.

    Btw... http://tuxq.com/~tuxq/wtf.jpg ... Why the hell on kernel.org is 2.2.19 the latest stable... lol