2004 - The year of the Penguin?

[mbottrell]

Well,

Seems Linus has delivered an early Christmas present to the Penguin hugging community.

The long awaited kernel 2.6.0 has moved out of testing and been released! It was released on December 18 and extends on the popular 2.4.x series... :)

Infoworld are running a nice 'glossy' of the release: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/18/HNlinuxkernel_1.html You can always find out what the latest versions here: http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner For those that want to jump on the Linux Kernel 2.6 wagon... go grab it at ftp://ftp.au.kernel.org/

Personally... I'm waiting for the bunnies to get rid of the bugs for me... I'll jump onboard around 2.6.3! :)

Cheers,

M@tt.

[wanderer]

yeah I've just installed wireless and to do so had to upgrade my kernel - decided to make the leap and went for 2.6.0 - but spent hours on it (config/compile etc) and half my computer stopped working, ended up pulling back to 2.4.23. I'll be waiting a while too - the system is way too different, I might wait till I can do a fresh build rather than clumsily trying to drop 2.6 on top of a 2.4 setup!

wanderer

[mbottrell]

Yeah ...
You need to upgrade a few core utils as well as the kernel...

Cheers,

M@tt.

[jlccarv]

Yeah, 2.6.0-mm1 is great for me :)

I'm running Gentoo 1.4 with the new kernel. I cant wait for Gentoo 2004 (but then again that long stage 1 install... but eh :)

[jeremy]

I'm up on 2.6 now, the main thing was to 'apt-get install module-init-tools'. Still tryint to get a few things sorted though. ALSA doesn't look too friendly so decided to stick with OSS, only I can't seem to get my 'es1371' module to autoload when it's needed even though I have it as an alias to char-major-14 in modprobe.conf. Likewise, I couldn't get my serial device driver to load by itself (or figure out how to use the new mouse input system with a serial mouse).

[berin]

I threw a packaged test9 on a debian unstable system. Caused a kernel panic during boot, probably due to some of the new interfacing.

I think I'll leave it for a while :>.

[Tux]

I am now using 2.6.0 vanilla but I have been using test kernels for around 6 months. I highly recommend everyone upgrade their kernel to 2.6. It is heaps faster.

[jlccarv]

Originally posted by Tux
I highly recommend everyone upgrade their kernel to 2.6. It is heaps faster.

Damn straight!! :)

Its faster in every respect and I have ALSA working a treat.

If this matters to anyone; start-up/boot times are half that of a fresh WindowsXp install :) This is from my personal experience.