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Linux 2.2.7 Released
MazMart was the first to report that a new stable kernel.
Linus decided to name it 2.2.7- a surprise move that
enraged and shocked, but since it was the next available digit
we shouldn't be all that surprised. Now if I only I had a T1-
hemos would kill me if I seized control of the ISDN
for something so selfish as as kernel.
ftp.jp.kernel.org
I'm already compiling...
Ftp.jp.kernel.org may have the full source but no patch yet. What's with that?
NT does not write device drivers, they expect vendors to write them.
It's hard to say which actually has more builds. The linux kernel vs. windows nt isn't a fair comparison. If you'll notice, the NT4 SP3 build number is 1,381. That's 1,381 "patches". MS keeps all the builds they do in house. Only when they want to go public with something do they ever bother telling anyone. Thus, you end up waiting a long time for fixes.
With Linux, you get to see the kernel as it is being improved. Every stable release, however, has to be done very carefully so that it can be used. Linux distributions then pick one and check that it works well for them. Or, if you're skilled in the art, you can get an update early, validate fixes, and even help with the coding.
And the truly, truly wicked would send a forged linux-kernel-patch email, and watch people install their Trojan Horse automatically. ;-)
if you turn it backwards, you get 722, and we ALL know what that means.
New kernel - big deal. This is getting so predictable. I can personally guarantee you that there will be a 2.2.8, 2.2.9 end eventually 2.3.0. People who really care about kernel upgrades will already be watching the relevant sites like kernel.org.
The Slashdot frontpage deserves better.
And what happens if someone forges mail to you from the mailing list, your procmail rule automagically patches your kernel, and you rebuilding later on. ;-) Nice way to fsck up your security.
something you're not supposed to chmod a users files to?
Because the Linux kernel people don't use CVS like the Rest Of The World.
That's another parallel to Microsoft.
...
THEY sold an OS with a "new" technology called
"multitasking" ignoring the fact, that UNIX does
it for a good 30 years now.
Same happens here, someone has an idea, actually
re-inventing the wheel, so-to-say, and "sells" it
as "brand new"
I said it before - Linux sucks
Actually, every installation of NT I've ever done including all service packs has been build 1381.
Ares, who somehow lost his cookie.
Obsessively getting the latest development release will leave your system in a terrible mess in no time at all.
Sooner or later you'll wipe the disk and realize its easier and far more sane to deal with the stable package set.
Let's face it - any linux version over 2.0 is more than adequate for what you're doing, assuming you represent the average user.
57.2KB/s .. that's it? it must be capped
i can max out from ftp.netscape.com
at close to 178 or so.. heh.. the full
1.5Mb/s
of course the new DSLAMs can go to 2.2 i
think.. i can't remember
ftp.funet.fi has always got the lastest kernel...
I've just installed 2.2.7 over my current 2.2.6 .config file to
installation, using the same
build it. When I try and boot 2.2.7, it gets
as far as the "Booting Linux..." message and
locks up completely (power off necessary.)
2.2.6 still boots fine, so what gives?
(It's a more or less plain vanilla kernel with
SMP support enabled.)
Can you say e-mail forgery? I though you could. Don't turn procmail into another Outlook clone
Evers since upgrading to kernel versions since 2.2.5, I have been getting messages that say /var/log/messages. Some debugging code left in the kernel maybe?
-- MARK --
every 20 minutes in my
--Anonymous Cow Herd
FreeBSD is an entire OS, kernel and applications and when 3.1-STABLE came out no bugs found in a month, unlike with Linux.
What's this about HPFS updates? This is the first time in a while (unless I'm mistaken) I've seen this. I've already got the hpfs-rw driver, so I don't want this to replace it with the ro one. And if it is replacing it with the rw one, then that probably means it trying to patch the kernel will fail miserably?
;) (since 2.1.x) Look for version.. 1.90 or above, iirc.
hmm, it's using a hpfs_fs.c (which it is patching), which is a file I don't have. (but is in the dir where I moved the ro to.) So, we're still updating the read-only driver?! WHY?!
PS: This driver has been available for a WHILE, just so fellow OS/2'ers know.
Also, where is there a good, descriptive changelog? (edge is just.. the basics.)
- Ajay
(don't forget the http? How many stupid ppl can there be in the world? Hmm, apparently more than I thought.)
Days in the US, maybe..
Blimey, that was quick. Can't keep up with all these patches. What's the average time between official kernel patches?
2.2.7
^ ^ ^
| | |----> Minor revision 7
| |
| |---> Even for stable, hence 2.0.37 is stable, | 2.1.129 is unstable, 2.2.7 is stable
|
|
|---> Major Version 2
How come NT has had 4 patches in 3 years and we're on 2.2.7 already?
Where are the linux-usb archives?
There's nothing on linuxhq, and I didn't find anything on dejanews or altavista...
Rob,
/.? i mean, this site is getting stinking slow and even my poor clients ante up for 1.2 megabits. c'mon, join the amazons and yahoos and get this thing moving!
Get some funding! doesn't anyone want to invest a few bucks in
Wow, that's really neat!
Oh yeah, FreeBSD has had such a setup for a really long time, but I suppose most of you don't know that. FreeBSD uses a program called CTM ("CVS Through Mail") to send automatic updates for ports and the entire source tree for the branch of choice (src-2_2, src-3, ports-cur, src-cur). majordomo automatically sends tree updates to those who want them, and ctm_rmail searches the appropriate mail file for the "patches," and can apply the patches or just store them. The patches can also be send in pieces and reconstructed when all of them are sent.
A really wicked setup, that has been implemented under FreeBSD for a long time.
I just wanted to point a feature that probably isn't very well known implemented in FreeBSD.
d00d, you overflowed your jiffies. Jiffies is the count the kernel uses to keep track of time since boot. On intel, with the default of 100Hz, it overflows in about 1.3 years ~ 500 days. You can change the default value, but its probably a bad idea because your changeing how often you processor is scheduled; your system will be considerably less responsive, etc. IIRC, Alan Cox wanted to fix this problem before 2.2 shipped, but Linus decided it wasn't that big of a deal.
Well, this url will work fine once it is updated, and it will show the updates in 2.2.7
http://edge.linuxhq.com/changelis t.cgi?show=2.2.6
Alan's patches tend to be more experimental and cutting edge in nature than Linus's patches. Often they are patches that need more testing before being submitted to Linus. He also collects the little bugfixes from linux-kernel and so they are all in one place. Linus then takes what he wants from the ac patches and rolls them into the main kernel.
no problem here.... mostly debian ~2.1 system(s), netscape 4.51, libc6 version, icewm... no kde, alas, i like lean wm's these days...
David
This sig left intentionally blank.
Isn't it:
2.2.7
^ ^ ^
| | -> patch level
| |
| ---> minor (even == stable, odd = unstable)
|
|----> major
I've never heard of anyone calling the last digit a minor, major.minor.patch is how I've always seen it.
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The world is neither black nor white nor good nor evil, only many shades of CowboyNeal.
Hmm, the USB support in 2.2.7 appears to be an alternate development by Linus & friends rather than from the Linux USB project.
Anyone have any ideas why they wrote their own instead of working with Linux USB project's version?
The Linux USB projects sources seem farther along than what is included in the kernel.
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Hmm, I haven't worked with procmail lately; I'm assuming it wouldn't be too hard to set it up to automatically compile everything (I have a shell script at /usr/src/linux/makeall that does that) and, depending on exactly how evil you were feeling, rename the old kernel, copy the new kernel, and re-run lilo. And patch /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net to reflect the new version.
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
As to movies, we'll go to the ones the interest us (eg TPM, Matrix, ST), but I doubt most geeks go to the movies just to get out and `have a life'. I certainly don't. I prefer reading a good SF book (The Star Fraction by Ken McCloud comes to mind), playing doom (a 486 won't cut it for quake) programming, or playing monopoly or scrabble with my wife (a semi repressed geek).
You sir, have to learn that what thrills you does not necessarily interest anyone else.
Leave other's their otherness. -- Marion Zimmer Bradly, The Survivours
Bill - aka taniwha
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Leave others their otherness. -- Aratak
We came
We saw
We overflowed their jiffies
Bill - aka taniwha
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Leave others their otherness. -- Aratak
ftp6.us.kernel.org has it.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
'nuff said.
Too bad AFAIK no projects are in widespread use, otherwise we could have everyone download their kernels at once with no more load to the net in general than if just a couple accessed.
Just a thought with disjointed output.
But it was actually fixed anyway.
OG.
As the title says, Jiffies go at 100Hz. This is the kernel scheduler frequency. (i.e the bit to the right of the #define HZ in linux/include/asm/param.h) For a 1Ghz machine, jiffies will run out at the same rate (so far as our time is concerned), but the tasking will seem ~10 times coarser to the applications. That said, if the machine is 1Ghz, the overhead of doing 64bit jiffies is minor (or zero if you have a 64bit processor)
John_Chalisque
For the sake of a quick speed hack (i.e. make the overhead a little lighter compared to what was there previously), set HZ to some power of 2 (i.e. 128 or 1024) and use >>'s, 's and &'s rather than %'s. p.s. does anybody know how quickly the PII does mod's compared to adds, shifts and &'s?
John_Chalisque
I haven't gotten hold of the patch yet (and tried four mirrors already) but did Linus include the USB OHCI driver too? No use trying it because it is very incomplete. The version in 2.2.7-pre4 hanged the machine completely.
At the time of writing, it's at
- And probably at many other mirrors.
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 has had 26 "HotFixes" for critical bugs since October 21, 1996. Combine this with the 4 service packs and multiple versions of vendor released drivers targeted at different subtle revision levels of NT for a confusing mess. In the same time span, Linux has been through 20 stable kernel releases. (2.0.24->36, 2.2.0->2.2.7) with almost every important device drives included in the standard kernel distribution.
Rob and others, why don't you just patch the source? The last full kernel source I downloaded was like 2.2.1 I think. Since then, I have been downloading the patches, and after a while, I tarball and gzip the full source all up and I have an exact copy as the 13+ meg file. Try it. :)
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Scott Miga
both login and telnet can insert the kernel version automatically. (as well as time/date, nr. of users, etc..)
read the issue, login and telnetd man pages.
I use Friend/Foe + mod-point modifiers as a karma/reputation system.
Debian 2.2 (potato) is updated at least once a day. It's wonderful - you automatically get the latest of everything and needed security fixes.
Of course, the latest is never thoroughly tested but thats what development versions are *for*.
Wouldn't something like NT 2.4.345 be more correct? Second release of NT (or was it just the GUI that changed?), fourth service pack and some extra patches.
The second digit is always even in the release versions. That's how we got from 2.0.36 to 2.2.0.
Jon Backstrom
If there were a symlink at ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org called 'latest' linked to (duh) the latest stable version of the kernel? Then you could just:
$ ftp ftp.us.kernel.org
login
ftp> get latest
Any problems with this idea? Sure would be neato, but is it unnecessary? Whatchall thank?
P.S. Gotta love DSL:
226 Transfer complete.
11074355 bytes received in 189.01 secs (57.2 kB/s)
:)
> Same happens here, someone has an idea, actually ...
;-)
> re-inventing the wheel, so-to-say, and "sells"
> it as "brand new"
> I said it before - Linux sucks
So do you, Doug Michels
Well, can you get it to happen again? If you just run back to 2.2.6, how is the problem going to get fixed?
You can think of SP4 as NT4.0.1341
( Or maybe NT4.1.1341 more accurate if you get my drift. )
Ken Broadfoot
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Sorry for the mix up.
( Like we really care that much )
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So, 1.0.x, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.2.x are all stable.
1.1.x, 1.3.x, 2.1.x, and 2.3.x [the last doesn't exist, yet] are all development.
It's too bad stupidity isn't painful"
Send your friends messages of love at fuck-you.org
pardon my greenery, but what (tf) is a jiffy? i take it there were no phb's around when this word was made?
(Presuming source is /usr/src/linux) /usr/src c )
cd
download patches (I like wget ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/v2.2/patch-2.et
linux/scripts/patch-kernel
Ta da! All patched.
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Updated vaguely once a whenever, maybe once a whenever-and-a-half.
That 2 always annoyed me. =)
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I always do stupid things when I'm drunk. "Yes, Billy, don't put parameters in ANGLE BRACKETS when the forum is HTML!!!!"
/'s to discard in the filenames. In this case, it should discard the first two (and any preceeding non-/'s.) Man patch for more info.
Line 3 should be
"In increasing order of version number, perform the following patch:
zcat [patch file] | patch -p2"
Useful additional content: The -p2 option tells the patch program how many
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Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
[ home ]
I guess I should get with the program. I don't think that script existed when I started compiling kernels.
It took me almost a year after the appearance of "menuconfig" to start using it instead of "config". =)
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Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
[ home ]
where you should replace zcat with bzcat if you downloaded the
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[ home ]
What a great phrase! Let's use it as a slang term.
"All right already, don't overflow your jiffies!"
"When I saw httpd was using 300 megs of memory, I nearly overflowed my jiffies."
no no no ... it's the second digit in hte version number that indicates whether or not the kernel version is "stable". (i.e. all 2.2.x kernels are rated as "stable" while the next developement series will be the 2.3.x series)
-Rob
I dunno ... I'm still on 2.2.4 ... if the patch rate keeps going like this I'm just gonna wait til 2.2.10 comes out.
-Rob
The minor version number (the middle one) is even, indicating a stable version (ie, all 2.2.x versions are officially "stable"). The 7 is the revision of the minor version.
Christopher A. Bohn
cb
Oooh! What does this button do!?
have the same procmail rule call a script that will do checksums and/or pgp signatures .... and rejecting all patches that failed that test then the security problem will only defer to trusting the people who put out the official patches ... and their machines ... and their pgp keys ... hmmm ....... i'd like to see a windows user make service packs auto-install -- no, wait. downloading service packs takes all day anyway ...
ftp.be.kernel.org has it already as well... full tree and patch... but only in bz2
> The truly wicked could setup a procmail rule to /usr/src/linux" ...
> feed mail from linux-kernel-patch directly to
> "patch -p1 -d
that would imply a rather large amount of trust, tho... course most people prolly a lot of people just patch everything blind any without making sure it is trustworthy or at least comparing pgp signatures or checksums...
but if you want to go all the way, you'll need to have that procmail rule also call a script that recompiles the kernel, and upon success of that copies it to the proper place, runs lilo, and reboots the machine.
quite a nice maintenance free approach to sys-admining... quite a nice maintenance free approach to security breaches too, imho... but i'm paranoid... =)
If what I understand about Jiffies is true, then a 100MHz machine is going to run out of Jiffies in 497 days, right? So, if we ever get to gigahertz processing, then Linux will actually have the same maxiumum uptime (49.7 days) that Windows NT has (49.7 days) on ANY machine. I wonder if this is also true for dual or quad processor machines? I haven't had time to read through the source yet, does anyone know?
Finding God in a Dog
For major linux industry news such as new kernel releases and new distro releases, I'd personally like to suggest that no outside contributor's name be attached to it. I'm referring to such things as "Bonzo was the first to mention that 2.2.2-ac4 has been released", not the "Posted by CmdrTaco" lines. Maybe 150 people post such a news item, or maybe only 15 - I really don't know, but awarding people as the first to report a story that will shortly be all over the major Linux sites anyway is just like people posting "first!" comments - it isn't *that* much of a contribution. News about kernel releases is available through so many mediums - usenet, mailing lists, other websites such as freshmeat.net, etc.
The types of contributions which should be encouraged are the obscure story of someone in Australia getting a Windows refund, or a Usenet post about writing drivers for some new hardware. Post-worthy articles that receive less than 5 unique submissions by external Slashdot readers are the ones that really deserve honorable mention.
-b
yep, with marla gibbs... who has a cameo in "Lost & Found" which I recommend you all avoid.
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This is my SIG. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
One's jiffy counters use a 32 bit register@100Hz, thus overflowing in 497 days.
There already exists a patch to make uptimes of >100 years possible.
It resides here
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"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
never have I felt so out of date, until I've realised that my linux box is already way behind (still have 2.2.2), because it doesn't have a net connection.
.1 and .01 database comparisons? I can't find that article on /. anywhere...
On a slightly off topic, can anyone point me to that comparison of linux v nt with the
Slashdot is a public forum, not a money-making machine. It does make a small profit, keeping our favourite administrators in leisure time, but at the moment it is not an in-your-face commercial venture.
If Rob needed more cash, he'd charge more for banner ads, put more of them in, or even go to the bank. Going to a VC is asking for millions, promising big returns. If slashdot was trying to make money off us (in a big way) it would turn off the traditional readership.
Don't you think so?
Jonathan
Hmph! None of the mirrors I've checked have it.
Don't they push these things?
It seems to me that it really doesn't hurt anyone when people get credited... and it just might make someone's day.
It just might encourage that person to submit in the future; he might submit something obscure yet interesting the second time.
See http://electricrain.com/linux/uusbd-www/ for the project.
/
/.
The list archive is at
http://electricrain.com/lists/archive/linux-usb
Yes, this is not Inaky's driver. There are two drivers under development. The smaller one was sparked off by Linus because we needed something simple & functional in the kernel today for many reasons you can figure out yourself...
The projects are working together and will likely merge bunches of code.
BTW, working OHCI support is coming. The stuff in the 2.2.7 kernel is -not- even complete yet (Linus put it in despite a couple hopeful plees from me and others to wait until that worked).
No big deal though. It's not even enabled in config.in as "EXPERIMENTAL" because we all agreed that it hasn't reached that status yet.
If you want web pages for code history and latest snapshots on the small driver you'll have to find them yourself from the list archive; its on my DSL line which would quickly
I think that he was just joking. There may be some special significance, though, tha tisn't terribly obvious.
They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. -- C. Sagan
To post a reply to the main topic, you have to press the Reply button at the top of the page. This is in the same row as the Threshold, and comment-ordering drop-down menus. It wasn't immediately obvious to me either :)
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
RedHat 6.0's been out for days now. Hell, I'm already on my second installation of it, and I'm the freakin' King of procrastination! :-P
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
You do know that the whole internet thing is international, right? In fact, I couldn't even find a U.S. site that had RedHat 6.0 for quite a while -- I ended up downloading it from a site in the U.K. -- ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Hey CT,
:o)
Why not download the patches instead! (Of course,
I'm one to be talking since I'm connected to my school's network which has 100mbs to Sunet
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Some people a pretty thick... :)
It was a JOKE!
The Linux kernel is developed by multiple people, however Linus is the only one to add to the "official" kernel. While I'm not sure why he doesn't use RCS (maybe he does), CVS would be pointless, since there is no "concurrent" development done on the official kernel. However, there was talk of him using a much better system for the type of development the kernel does (bitwize or something like that, which is designed much closer to the development model of the kernel). However, I haven't watched the kernel group lately, so don't know where that discussion went.
This is not a desktop calculator, it is best that all patches get reviewed, not just added and debugged later.
-- Keith Moore
This sig is the express property of someone.
Why? Because NT is such a huge, lumbering beast, its patches are too.
SP4 for the Alpha was a 48Mb download - and the file is a self-extracting exe. If you have Macs, you need another 3 or so hotfixes, and it still won't work quite right without trashing the MacVolume index and rebuilding it. (They re-wrote SFM (Services For Macintosh) to use the disk for the index instead of memory) That 48Mb basicly replaces a full 75% of the OS - exes, dlls, drivers and other such important items. Also, in order to be Y2K ready, you need 2 other "patches" - Internet Exploder 4.01 and Data Acess objects 2.0. It's a scary thing.
My personal experience with SP4 is mixed - killed a few machines, saved others. I would like it better if I could just patch what was needed.
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
You can patch it but you have to get the 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, and the 2.2.7 patch and patch them in order...
Still better than d/ling the whole thing though
-Lee
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Just in the process of upgrading from 2.2.6 now. Its 0:46am over here in Reading, England (near London), but what the hell? I want to be the ***most*** up to date Linux user I know :-) (my copy of RH 6.0 will arrive on Monday - the day of Release! :-)
periscope.
http://www.jonmasters.org/
I'm on 2.2.2, guess it's time to move on to 2.2.7. Maybe this weekend.
Lowmag.net
I thought stable versions ended in even numbered digits. Or am I just dumb?
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
If you send mail to Majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu with "subscribe linux-kernel-patch" in the body, you will automagically receive the latest patch, as soon as it is posted by the Linus.
/usr/src/linux/scripts/patch-kernel on the resulting file ....
If the patch is too big (> ~400k) you will receive a notification and the diffstat output.
The truly wicked could setup a procmail rule to feed mail from linux-kernel-patch directly to uudecode and then invoke
If you send mail to Majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu with "subscribe linux-kernel-patch" in the body, you will automagically receive the latest patch, as soon as it is posted by the Linus.
/usr/src/linux" ...
If the patch is too big (> ~400k) you will receive a notification and the diffstat output.
The truly wicked could setup a procmail rule to feed mail from linux-kernel-patch directly to "patch -p1 -d
I have just posted it to linux-kernel:
--- drivers/usb/usb.h.bak Wed Apr 28 21:59:45 1999
+++ drivers/usb/usb.h Wed Apr 28 22:08:08 1999
@@ -363,8 +363,8 @@
void usb_audio_interface(struct usb_interface_descriptor *, u8 *);
void usb_audio_endpoint(struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *, u8 *);
#else
-extern inline void usb_audio_interface(struct usb_interface_descriptor *, u8 *) {}
-extern inline void usb_audio_endpoint(struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *, u8 *) {}
+extern inline void usb_audio_interface(struct usb_interface_descriptor *interface, u8 *data) {}
+extern inline void usb_audio_endpoint(struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *interface, u8 *data) {}
#endif
#endif
actually... my first question is how do I post post a reply to the main topic, rather than sombeody else's reply?
Back to the ac patch thing. I'm pretty sure "ac" stands for Alan Cox. But are these patches solely his work? Or does he gather all of the patches and combine them under his initials? Are they included in the 2.2.7 release?
I'm just an idiot, so forgive me if I don't understand how it all works.
That definately needs to be added to the jargon file :)
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i'd love to write the biz plan for Slashdot, the Geek Portal...users highly tech saavy, spend a lot on computers, mp3 players, and nachos...hey if antionline can get vc funding /. can!
-- your knees hurt, don't they?
not that thats a bad thing: i think this is a good counterpoint to FUD
-- your knees hurt, don't they?
I must have missed something. What's the big deal with the name '2.2.7' anyways?
I've never patched a kernel to upgrade, but i want to know if i can just d/l the patch instead of the whole thing. (Yeah, i know it's kindof a newbie question)
--direwolph
Hmmm. My uptime on that system has been a source of pride, so I rather agree with Alan Cox that it should be fixed. Oh, well, the system needed an upgrade anyway, and now I'll probably have to reboot or strange things may happen.
Well, a bit on the silly side, I just went through a horrible horrible bug in Linux 2.0.30. After somewhere around 500 days uptime... IT WRAPPED!
According to last, it went up at:
reboot system boot Tue Dec 16 22:51
(That would be 1997).
Now:
11:40pm up 22:21, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.00
Suddenly I was back at 0 uptime, and my logfiles went through a spasm with kernel error messages ending with this:
Apr 28 01:56:07 dream kernel: Call Trace: [do_gettimeofday+34/68] [sys_gettimeof
day+44/112] [system_call+85/124]
Apr 28 01:56:07 dream kernel: Code: f7 f1 ba 10 27 00 00 89 c1 31 c0 f7 f1 a3 dc
fa 1a 00 89 c3
Oh, well, still it didnt panic, altho a load of apps including X went haywire.
It sorta puts life into a perspective too. Last time I rebooted this machine I was 25. Now I'm 27. Agh.
put the patches into your /usr/src directoy. They need not be all of the same type, i.e. some may bz2 others gz..
/usr/src run linux/scripts/patch-kernel
then from
that's it. then:
make (menu|x)?config bzImage modules modules_install
HTH
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Weasel
As soon as I load up Netscape 4.51 and hit the bookmarks button it locks thats running with KDE 1.1, YMMV :(
I'm back to 2.2.6
It was a joke. He was being facetious.