Stable Linux Kernel 2.6.10 Released

An anonymous reader writes "Offering it as 'something to play with over the holidays,' Linus Torvalds released the official 2.6.10 Linux kernel, which he named the 'Woozy Numbat.' KernelTrap offers the full details, noting that there have been minimal changes since the last release candidate, 2.6.10-rc3. Linus commented that with 2.6.10 released, now he could 'get into the Glögg for real' (a hot mulled wine with spices, red wine, port and brandy). As always, the latest Linux kernel can be downloaded from a kernel.org mirror." (Here are some recipes, too.)

Comments

Glogg

[Ajmuller]

Somewhat OT but Glogg, or Mulled Wine, is absolutely wonderful at the holidays. I generally make about 40 bottles of it and give it out as gifts. It's very well recieved people love it as a gift (as a rule, store 2-3 extra bottles in the car when you visit a party, you can never be sure who will show up). It also warms you up wonderfully when you come back from caroling or sleigh riding with the little ones.
A major component of Glogg is Aquavit, this year I had two extra bottles of Aquavit left over, one bottle got spiced with apples & cinnamon, the other, whole Pomogrante seeds and slices of orange. Both are absolutely fabulous. After letting them mull for a few weeks freeze them inside a block of ice, the ice will freeze around the bottle and but the Aquavit will stay liquid and freezing cold all through your holiday party.

First First Post, what a wonderful christmas present!

Re:Glogg

[LearnToSpell]

My granny wrote me a letter some years ago which I saved. No idea how much is true, but it sounds good. :-)

"It has none of the coma-inducing sweetness of mulled cider, let alone the melted ice cream overkill of eggnog. Instead, it combines the robustness of a serious wine with the headiness of a strong martini. It also goes surprisingly well with food, which is no small consideration on a Champagne recovery day."

Glogg varies. Traditionally the spiced wine is set afire and poured over sugar so that the granules melt into the punch, adding just enough sweetness to smooth the bitter edge.

TRADITIONAL GLOGG
Time: 40 minutes

1/4 cup raisins*
1 cup blanched whole almonds*
6 cardamom pods*
Pinch ground nutmeg*
6 cloves*
2 sticks cinnamon*
1 teaspoon dried ground orange peel*
(available where spices are sold)
1/3-inch piece fresh ginger*
1 bottle dry red wine
1 1/2 cups aquavit
5 ounces cube sugar

1. In a large stainless steel or other nonreactive saucepan, combine the *. Add the red wine, and allow to steep for 30 minutes. Add the aquavit and place over low heat until steaming, but do not boil.

2. Place the sugar cubes on a flameproof perforated ladle. Carefully light the glogg with a long match; low blue flames will dance on the surface (be careful of face, hair, and hands). Hold the ladle with the sugar over the pan, and use a second ladle to scoop up the burning glogg and pour it over the sugar. Continue until the sugar melts into the pan. Put out the fire by covering the pan with a lid. (If you do not wish to light the glogg, the sugar can be added to the pan with the spices, and stirred until dissolved.)

3. Serve glogg very warm in small cups with a few almonds and raisins in each.

Yield: 5 1/2 cups (10-12 servings).

HIGH-OCTANE GLOGG
Time: 10 minutes

1 quart aquavit
2 bottles inexpensive dry red wine
1 bottle ruby port
5 tablespoons sugar
4 cardamom pods
12 whole cloves
12 allspicberries
1 cinnamon stick
1 cup blanched, slivered almonds
1 cup golden raisins

Combine all ingredients but almonds and raisins in large enameled or stainless steel pot. Bring slowly to a simmer, stirring to dissolve sugar, and heat just until liquid starts to steam, about 10 minutes. To serve, place a couple of almonds and raisins each in small cups and ladle glogg over.

Yield: 1 gallon.

The first recipe was adapted from Jan Wickstrom, executive chef to the Swedish consul general. Remember that Wikings, as the word is pronounced in Norway (or Norge, as they spell it on their postal stamps), had a lot of practice drinking until the government put a clamp on all things alcoholic.

The word "berserk" is a Norwegian adjective, "berserker" is a Viking term, and Vikings were Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish. They went berserk in the summertime, too, when they tried to drink to get to sleep during the midsummer when there wasn't much nighttime. More Icelanders are alcoholics than any other nationality. Too far north. You don't hear about Laplanders being alcoholics, but that may be because they have only reindeer, and they keep moving about, and stills are too cumbersome to pack onto reindeer as the North People travel hither, thither, and yon.

Caution: Fire is dangerous in the hands of folks who have had a few slugs of glogg. Have a fire extinguisher ready or invite a fireman to the party. He'll know what to do in case of rash behavior.

Remember to say "Skol!" before your first sip. The glass is raised high as the wish is cried out. There's a long o in "Skol." It rhymes with "shoal." Glasses are not thrown against the fireplace. That's English.

Re:Glogg

[YU Nicks NE Way]

By the time one reaches my age, one typically has a number of friends who were sober, but still becamse casualties of drunk drivers.

Re: [OT] Glogg

[Mick Ohrberg]

Mmmm, glögg is the stuff dreams are made of. Loaded with sugar and spices. The alcohol free version is very good, and excellent at warming you up, as you're sitting around a bonfire in the sub arctic winter night (I was born and raised in northern Sweden). The alcohol version is more fun! And yes, glögg is reminiscent of glühwein.

Re:Jesus was born in march

[morgan_greywolf]

The Christian holidays were moved around by one of the Roman emperors so that Christian holidays would coincide with the traditional pagan holidays. The idea was to get the pagans to convert to Christianity. Christmas, for example, was changed so that it would coincide with the Winter Solstice.

Working fine on my x86_64

[tomstdenis]

Just chiming in to say 2.6.10 works fine on my amd64 box [using tulip network, alsa/cmpci sound, nvidia video, reiserfs disk, have most I2C/I2O turned on, using NFS for network shares, etc...]. ;-)

Tom

Of course

[T0t0r0_fan]

Of course it is signed.

PGP sig for the patch

Instructions

Patch

[MikeCapone]

You can download just the patch to go from 2.6.9 to 2.6.10, y'know. On dialup that'll save you a lot of time, and that'll save Kernel.org some bandwidth (not that they are short on that).

Re:Make grub even easier to use

[telekon]

For those who don't know, this is how is goes on Debian; apt-get install kernel-tree-2.whatever cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.whatever make config/xconfig/whatever dpkg -i kernel-image-2.whatever

You forgot to 'make-kpkg buildpackage' before you went and installed that non-existent package with dpkg... I'm assuming you're going for a monolithic kernel here and thus dispensed with the pesky module compilation.

Re:cdrecord/k3b fixed?

[robw810]

Still not working here - the only mention of 'cdrecord' in the changelog is this: [PATCH] Permit LOG_SENSE and LOG_SELECT in SG_IO command table This patch adds LOG_SENSE as a read-ok command. cdrecord-prodvd uses this. I also added LOG_SELECT as write-ok as this seems to fit in as well.

Re:Randeon 9200SE and ACPI

[setagllib]

If you couldn't with 2.6.9, 2.6.9 won't be any better... logic, boy, logic.

ACPI should work anywhere that conforms (BIOSes earlier than 2000 usually have problems though), what kind of problems do you have? nForce2 has been supported for almost as long as it's existed. Throttle depends on processor, but I saw an nForce-specific driver there too. Temperature if it's available.

Just try it. It's a good release, rare in 2.6 so far, and should support all you've described... except MAYBE DRI (not just 3D acceleration) for the Radeon. Unless it's backwards compatible with the 9200, which I hear is the latest of the supported-in-tree cards. Google it.

Re:GlÃgg

[frambris]

Actually, Glögg and Gluwein is not exactly the same.

Here's my moms recipe (which is made the real way, not cheating with red wine ;-) ). Do try it once it's really nice and goes nice with the season

Metric units and swedish translations of the ingredients in parantheses.

2 Dried peels from Seville orange (Pomerans)
5 Potatoes, sliced raw
1/3 cup (3/4 dl) Dried clove (Nejlikor)
A bit of ginger (ingefära)
17.5 oz (1/2 kg) Raisins
A bag of (1/2 dl) Cardamom (Kardemumma)
1.5 oz (50 g) Yeast
5.5 lb (2.5 kg) Sugar
1.5 gal (5.5 l) Small beer (really really weak (of taste and alcohol) beer... sort of. Tommelillas svagdricka)

That is then just put in a pot for 4 weeks. It's then strained off and set to rest in another pot for a week. Then it's ready to be bottled up and drunk hot.

Re:New year new kernel

[m50d]

No, 2.7 hasn't branched off yet. That's why 2.6 is still unstable. I'm sticking with 2.4 until it does.

Glögg not "GlÃgg"

[LiLL-MiCK]

Glögg not "GlÃgg". And btw, its very good tasting :P

Re:Changelog

[raxx7]

He does, it's called BitKeeper.
You can download the current 2.6 kernel with:
bk clone bk://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5

However, some people refuse to use it because it's not Free Software and has some licencing issues.

Also, Linus decided to go ahead without the previous two tree system. So, until there is any major changes requiring the split, 2.6 will be both the stable and development tree.

So, you still need point in time releases, both for users and to developers who don't want to use BitKeeper.