Posted by
justin++
on from the that-was-fast dept.
adraken writes "It just seems like minutes ago that 2.3.1 was out, but 2.3.2 is out... " Remember folks: use a mirror. Standard "don't use unless you know what you're doing" disclaimer applies.Update: 05/15 02:43 by J: There seems to be a ChangeLog available.
question about framebuffer
by
Anonymous Coward
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I noticed on the changelog for 2.3.2 that it has
16 color VGA framebuffer console driver added.
So what exactly is this? Is this along the lines of a stripped down GUI for the console? (obviously not something to the extent of an X server.) I'm guessing a use for it would be akin to Win95's install, where it dumps to a low color GUI for the entire thing. Anyone care to shed some light on this?
(sorry for the AC post, as moderating the thread from evildoers and for insightful users prevented me from posting )
Re:question about framebuffer
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jcurbo
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> That's exactly what it's good for. Have you seen a fully graphical, > one-floppy linux install? You will.
Yes you certainly will, if you use Debian in the future. As we speak the Debian boot-floppies team is working on a graphical installation disk set for a future release of Debian. It won't exactly be one-floppy (it's hard to fit the 2.2 kernel and the root.bin ramdisk on one floppy) but it will certainly be much nicer than the old newt-based install.
I'm expecting to see the development kernel numbers climb pretty rapidly.. Probably a new one every day, with the occasional twice-a-day ones and the occasional skipped day.
Perhaps Rob/Hemos/someone can make a special 'Kernel' or 'Kernel-Development' news type that people can filter out. I'd actually recommend both types. That way, normal people can hear about the fixes to the stable end of things, and the people that love the bleeding edge can go out and grab the devel kernel..
Of course, I'm sure someone could just write a nifty script that fingers linux.kernel.org to update that stuff automatically (or maybe a slashbox.. hmm..)
If you ever want to see the data on that HPFS partition again, don't. Using a development kernel, you're assuming that you will lose all your data. Be careful.
I think we need (at least) 3 linux topics:
by
Rob_D_Clark
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1) linux, general 2) linux kernel, stable 3) linux kernel, unstable
This way folks can have the flexibility to filter out some/all/none of the linux related posts.
I agree with the previous poster about this. A Linux kernel slashbox would rock! Id have it as my first one listed, you could have a script that reports the current stable and devel kernels as links that would by default take you to linuxhq or something.
Slashdot has always announced the devel kernel releases. Please search Slashdot for "kernel 2.1 released", if you doubt this. Go on. There is a reason for the little "search" thing down there at the bottom of this page.
If you don't like an article, don't click "Read More". I really cannot see how this is difficult to comprehend.
Please stop whinging about a free service and let Rob and friends run their site as they please. Slashdot might not be the quickest place to report the releases, but it does give a good place to see discussion about problems others have had with the release. But obviously not this article, today.
POLL IDEA: devkernel announces?
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nowonder
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as written wrt 2.3.1 i think only announcements should be made that feature a real news element. but thats only my opinion, so why not make a poll:
how would you like your kernels? * i want it all * no development kernels, please * kernels -> slashbox * let me filter them/new category * only important ones * medium with chili and sauce hollondaise
They can (and often are) quite unstable. Some of them (2.1.44 comes to mind) can even trash your file systems. Basically don't play with them unless you are willing to deal with your system being rendered useless.
I'm not saying that all kernel anouncements should be ignored. Just the devel ones. A) because newbies might get bitten. B) There are going to be a lot of them and it's quickly going to get very annoying, espeically when it gets to the point where there are 3 releases on the same page of slashdot.
They aren't relevant for most slashdot readers and there are going to be a LOT more of them before 2.4 comes out. Posting them to slashdot is just a waste of space.
As I recall most, if not all of the 2.1 kernel releases were announced. There's at least a day, usually 2 or 3 between releases, so unless you have a LOT of headlines on your page, its unlikely you'll see more than one at a time.
As for newbies, I don't see this as a big deal. Assuming they're as unexperienced as you claim by the time they read enough documentation to get the kernel installed they should be able to understand that development releases are possibly unstable and potentially dangerous.
I hadn't planned to install a 2.3.x kernel this early, but I guess I'll do it for that feature by itself...
There IS a kernel version SlashBox...
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Chris+Pimlott
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It's called "LinuxHQ Kernel Versions." Gives the current new and old versions of stable and development kernels, with links to the files and the patch browser.
It seems that only yesterday that 2.3.1 came out. Actually it was;). I think we need to stop posting when every new kernel comes out. Anything in the development branch shouldn't be installed by anyone bu those who are doing development or like the bleeding edge and these people will find out that a new kernel is out through different channels anyway.
So, let's stop this madness; Slashdot is news for nerds, not Linux Patches and by the way did you hear that...
Slashdot Mirror
- 16 color VGA framebuffer console driver added.
So what exactly is this? Is this along the lines of a stripped down GUI for the console? (obviously not something to the extent of an X server.) I'm guessing a use for it would be akin to Win95's install, where it dumps to a low color GUI for the entire thing. Anyone care to shed some light on this?(sorry for the AC post, as moderating the thread from evildoers and for insightful users prevented me from posting )
I'm expecting to see the development kernel numbers climb pretty rapidly.. Probably a new one every day, with the occasional twice-a-day ones and the occasional skipped day.
Perhaps Rob/Hemos/someone can make a special 'Kernel' or 'Kernel-Development' news type that people can filter out. I'd actually recommend both types. That way, normal people can hear about the fixes to the stable end of things, and the people that love the bleeding edge can go out and grab the devel kernel..
Of course, I'm sure someone could just write a nifty script that fingers linux.kernel.org to update that stuff automatically (or maybe a slashbox.. hmm..)
If you ever want to see the data on that HPFS partition again, don't. Using a development kernel, you're assuming that you will lose all your data. Be careful.
1) linux, general
2) linux kernel, stable
3) linux kernel, unstable
This way folks can have the flexibility to filter out some/all/none of the linux related posts.
--Rob
I agree with the previous poster about this. A Linux kernel slashbox would rock! Id have it as my first one listed, you could have a script that reports the current stable and devel kernels as links that would by default take you to linuxhq or something.
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Slashdot has always announced the devel kernel releases. Please search Slashdot for "kernel 2.1 released", if you doubt this. Go on. There is a reason for the little "search" thing down there at the bottom of this page.
If you don't like an article, don't click "Read More". I really cannot see how this is difficult to comprehend.
Please stop whinging about a free service and let Rob and friends run their site as they please. Slashdot might not be the quickest place to report the releases, but it does give a good place to see discussion about problems others have had with the release. But obviously not this article, today.
as written wrt 2.3.1 i think only announcements
should be made that feature a real news
element. but thats only my opinion, so why not
make a poll:
how would you like your kernels?
* i want it all
* no development kernels, please
* kernels -> slashbox
* let me filter them/new category
* only important ones
* medium with chili and sauce hollondaise
-- NoWonder of WonderWorks/OmegaProject
They can (and often are) quite unstable. Some of them (2.1.44 comes to mind) can even trash your file systems. Basically don't play with them unless you are willing to deal with your system being rendered useless.
-matt
I'm not saying that all kernel anouncements should be ignored. Just the devel ones. A) because newbies might get bitten. B) There are going to be a lot of them and it's quickly going to get very annoying, espeically when it gets to the point where there are 3 releases on the same page of slashdot.
-matt
They aren't relevant for most slashdot readers and there are going to be a LOT more of them before 2.4 comes out. Posting them to slashdot is just a waste of space.
-matt
Finally, I can write to my OS/2 drives...
I hadn't planned to install a 2.3.x kernel this early, but I guess I'll do it for that feature by itself...
It's called "LinuxHQ Kernel Versions." Gives the current new and old versions of stable and development kernels, with links to the files and the patch browser.
Happy?
It seems that only yesterday that 2.3.1 came out. Actually it was ;). I think we need to stop posting when every new kernel comes out. Anything in the development branch shouldn't be installed by anyone bu those who are doing development or like the bleeding edge and these people will find out that a new kernel is out through different channels anyway.
So, let's stop this madness; Slashdot is news for nerds, not Linux Patches and by the way did you hear that...
Those who need it will find it.