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Linux 2.6.17 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the spit-shine dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "After almost three months, Linux 2.6.17 has been released. The changes include support for Sun Niagara CPUs, a new I/O mechanism called 'splice' which can improve the performance greatly for some applications, a scheduler domain optimized for multicore machines, driver for the widely used broadcom 43xx wifi chip (Apple's Airport Extreme and such), iptables support for the H.323 protocol, CCID2 support for DCCP, softmac layer for the wireless stack, block queue IO tracing, and many other changes listed at the changelog"

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  1. Diversity in advocacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've been hearing lately that there's some interest in advocating usage of open source and Linux to women. GNOME's encouragement for women coders, the Debian Women group and the currently proposed Gentoo Women groups are all a step in the right direction, but I wonder if there isn't a bigger issue to be dealt with.

    For example, much of the computer wallpaper available out there contains blatantly sexist themes. Sadly, in many forums users choose avatars or use language that may make members of the fairer sex uncomfortable at best, and at worst drive them away to more professional and neutral platforms.

    I can't help but wonder if the community would benefit more from passively discouraging these sort of things (by raising awareness of this issue and rejecting potentially divisive content) than it would by driving women out of the mainstream open source community into specially-marked pockets of the Internet. At least the issue is being discussed, which is certainly progress, but it will take much more time and effort to truly address the problem.

  2. Had to exchange a motherboard by kbahey · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I settled on the ASUS A8V-MX as a nice inexpensive mobo for my home server.

    In it I put a SATA disk. Linux would not see the disk at all, since this mobo uses a newer VIA chipset.

    There is a patch for the VIA chipset in question (the forum on forums.viaarena.com has so many pages on that topic).

    It was easier for me to exchange the motherboard with an ASUS A8V which works flawlessly, but require an add on video card (irrelevant for a server), 2 less SATA connectors, and a Gigabit ethernet.

    Had to pay more for this one, but easier than putting in an IDE disk to build the kernel on, and then boot the SATA drive.

    The patch will make it by 2.6.18.

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  3. SCO's drained... by vingt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    SCO knows that this update was released only to make their Caldera announcement look bad. Just when they got a handle on the 2.5 codebase, the 2.6 has been advanced yet further. Their lawyer-by-day, codemeister-by-night personnel can't keep up. The hide-from-it-by-day, suck-at-it-by-night schedule is killing their undead.