Linux 2.6.17 Released

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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Had to exchange a motherboard

[kbahey]

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.