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Linux 2.6 Turns 1 Year Old

Posted by michael on from the rated-p-for-progress dept.

Paul Kucher writes "On December 17th, 2003, Linux 2.6 was released by Linus Torvalds, saying 'The beaver is out of detox.' This was a reference to the last pre-release of the 2.6 kernel, which was called Beaver in Detox. Although a stable release, the 2.6 kernel has added many new features in the past year due to the new development model. It will be interesting to see what else is in store for this kernel, and I imagine it will be years before it is in maintenance mode."

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  1. Re:Still on 2.4 here by n1ywb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You may have an oddball USB controller that isn't enabled by default in most kernels, even though it probably IS supported by 2.6. Do you have "assign IRQ to usb" or "usb dos mode" or whateever turned on in your BIOS?

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  2. Re:Still on 2.4 here by wolf31o2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try a Gentoo 2004.3-r1 LiveCD. We have had exactly ZERO bug reports of people's USB not working with our CD, and we don't have any special USB patches added from vanilla 2.6.9, so it should work perfectly for you.