Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 kernel is 2.6.20, released by Linus on February 4, otherwise known as Super Kernel Sunday. There's a bunch of new stuff in 2.6.20, including paravirt_ops and KVM, lots of new drivers (including your editor's OLPC camera controller driver), the UDP-Lite protocol, Playstation 3 support, and more. See the short-form changelog for details, the long-format changelog for more details, the LWN 2.6 API changes page for a summary of internal API differences, or the KernelNewbies Linux Changes page for lots more information.

The patches for the 2.6.21 merge have just begun to find their way into the mainline git repository as of this writing. A number of architecture updates have been merged, along with a GFS2 patch set.

There have been no -mm tree releases over the last week.

For older kernels: 2.6.19.3 was released on February 5. It contains quite a long list of fixes. The -stable team had originally intended not to release any more 2.6.18 updates. It seems that there are some fixes for that kernel which are worth distributing, however, so one more 2.6.18.x release can be expected in the near future.

Adrian Bunk has released 2.6.16.40-rc1 with a relatively small number of fixes.

For 2.4 users, Willy Tarreau has released 2.4.34.1 with only three patches.

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Posted Feb 8, 2007 9:27 UTC (Thu) by gravious (subscriber, #7662) [Link]

Hi all,

I don't normally post tech-support questions to LWN but the mention of the editors's OLPC camera controller driver (neato by the way) made me remember that I need to communicate better with my daughter - and this is an enlightened audience. Can anyone recommend a decent webcam for Linux. Thanks!

regards,
Anthony

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Posted Feb 8, 2007 19:59 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

I've tried video conferencing a couple times. It's really fun for about ten minutes while you play with it but it gets fairly awkward when you actually try to talk about something else. I think the biggest problem is that the video almost always lags the audio and the other person never looks at you. When they are looking you in the face, to you it looks like they're looking uncomfortably away and vice versa. It's fairly disconcerting.

I'd suggest setting up an Asterisk or Skype call-anytime-for-free rig. IM if you can. Visit in person briefly and often when you can. An hour sitting in a cafe beats any amount of talking through a webcam. Ignore the video conferencing until you can embed a quick, high quality camera right in the LCD.

BTW, if you can ever videoconference 8 engineers in Bangalore with 3 engineers in San Jose, I highly recommend it. Sheer comedy. Not very productive, but it's great entertainment.

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Posted Feb 11, 2007 22:05 UTC (Sun) by gravious (subscriber, #7662) [Link]

um,

http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Webcams