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Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents

Posted by timothy on from the my-holiday-thanks-go-mostly-to-the-finnish-guy dept.

darthcamaro writes "Little penguins all around the world are waiting for Penguin-Master Linus Torvalds to deliver some Glogg inspired Xmas cheer in the form of the new 2.6.28 kernel. Among the innovations in 2.6.28 are ext4 as stable, wireless USB drivers, better KVM support and the GEM graphic memory management technology. 'We now have a proper memory manager for video memory, the GEM [Graphics Execution Manager] memory manager,' Greg Kroah-Hartman said. 'This gives Linux much better graphics performance than it previously had.'"

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  1. Re:I for one... by TeknoHog · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...welcome our old Unicode-challenged Slashdot. BÃrk bÃrk bÃrk!

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  2. Re:2009 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The moderators are drunk on Christmas spirits.

    Which is only proven by the fact that they modded you insightful for that very comment.

  3. Re:To clear somethings up by radish · · Score: 4, Funny

    That page is a hoot. In general I groan whenever a software homepage has a "Philosophy" section, but the installation instructions more than make up for it...

    Installation for Non-Programmers (emphasis mine)
          1. FBUI resides inside the 2.6.9 kernel, so the first thing you must do is to get the kernel, un-tar FBUI in its directory, select the necessary options mentioned in the README, then make the kernel and update your loader to let you boot the new kernel. (I will offer a precompiled x86 kernel later.)
          2. You also need to tell your boot loader to switch to the VESA console during booting. In LILO use the expression vga=792 for a 1024x768 display or vga=789 for 800x600.
          3. Then you boot with the kernel. Next you need to set up the PCF font directory, populating it with fonts from the X distribution, making sure to uncompress them. The PCF font reader is really just a temporary chunk of code so I'm not going to update it to perform automatic decompression. Note, if you aren't sure where the fonts are, type (as root) find / -name "*.pcf*". To make sure libfbui knows where they are, you can use the PCFFONTDIR environment variable (as in export PCFFONTDIR=/path...).
          4. Once you've done these things, just compile the sample programs in /usr/src/linux-2.6.9/libfbui and run them from there. You may find it helps to run a program in a different virtual console using the -c switch.

    See how easy? I am a programmer and that's... well... yeah.

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