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Linux 2.6.26 Out

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the kernel-about-town dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "After three months, Linux 2.6.26 has been released. It adds support for read-only bind mounts, x86 PAT (Page Attribute Tables), PCI Express ASPM (Active State Power Management), ports of KVM to IA64, S390 and PPC, other KVM improvements including basic paravirtualization support, preliminary support of the future 802.11s wireless mesh standard, much improved webcam support thanks to a driver for UVC devices, a built-in memory tester, a kernel debugger, BDI statistics and parameters exposure in /sys/class/bdi, a new /proc/PID/mountinfo file for more accurate information about mounts, per-process securebits, device white-list for containers users, support for the OLPC, some new drivers and many small improvements. Here is the full list of changes."

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  1. Does it disturb anyone else? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It adds support for read-only bind mounts, x86 PAT (Page Attribute Tables), PCI Express ASPM (Active State Power Management), ports of KVM to IA64, S390 and PPC, other KVM improvements including basic paravirtualization support, preliminar support of the future 802.11s wireless mesh standard, much improved webcam support thanks to a driver for UVC devices, a built-in memory tester, a kernel debugger, BDI statistics and parameters exposure in /sys/class/bdi,

    Does it disturb anyone else how many words the bsdm & linux kernel community have in common? (this is not a troll).

    Frankly, I blame IBM.

    1. Re:Does it disturb anyone else? by something_wicked_thi · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nah, SATA gets rid of all that. No more master and slave. Now, we submit to the controller.

    2. Re:Does it disturb anyone else? by value_added · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nah, SATA gets rid of all that. No more master and slave. Now, we submit to the controller.

      Actually, submitting to the controller is redundant. I guess that makes the above a joke within a joke for those who thought otherwise. From the relevant Wiki article:

      In fact, the drivers in the host operating system perform the necessary arbitration and serialization, and each drive's controller operates independently. Both are really "slaves" to the driver in the host OS.

      And because SATA presents the ATA interface to the system (the difference being how the chips are connected to the drive), you could say there's an additional joke in there, but one only those using SCSI would find funny.

  2. Re:Kernel debugger? by HvitRavn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I found this article on Wikipedia but it doesn't say much except "A kernel debugger is a debugger present in some kernels to ease debugging and kernel development by the kernel developers". Can someone whip out a cluebat please?

  3. Re:init post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ugh, still no token ring support. And it's distributed under the GPL License. I think I'll recommend all my fortune 500 clients stick with windows server 2003.

  4. Re:Ah but does it run Linux?!? by phobos13013 · · Score: 5, Funny

    These changes will now make 2008, THE year for the linux desktop!

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  5. Re:Real writeable NTFS? by Gothmolly · · Score: 4, Funny

    Careful, some of those other filesystems really kill performance.

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  6. Re:Real writeable NTFS? by plus_M · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, this joke has been beaten to death for the past month or so. Can't you lay it to rest?

  7. Re:Ah but does it run Linux?!? by Jellybob · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure, just install Xen, and then you can indeed make it run Linux.

    If you're feeling really masochistic, you could even create a beowulf cluster of Linux boxes, running Linux, with Linux running on them. /me watches his head explode.

  8. Re:Good point, but... by H0p313ss · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...if your friend/colleague/whatever wants to use an NTFS-formatted drive on your computer, he might be a little unhappy if you reformat it.

    I put NTFS support on my Linux computers and Ext2/Ext3 support (and a proper formatting tool) on my Windows computers. It's called interoperability.

    Nice one

    Can't figure out if I should moderate as insightful, funny or +1 quality bitchsmack

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  9. Re:Clever new tools for kernel config by slashflood · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clever, but takes some time:

    1. make randconfig
    2. Compile, install and boot the kernel
    3. If your system doesn't boot or lacks a driver, goto 1.

  10. Re:Real writeable NTFS? by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 3, Funny

    We can give you closure, if you cut us a deal.

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  11. Re:Kernel debugger? by SiggyTheViking · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can someone whip out a cluebat please?

    <WHACK />
    There. Did that help?

  12. Re:Kernel debugger? by Frank+T.+Lofaro+Jr. · · Score: 3, Funny

    XML tags are lowercase.

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