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Kernel release status
The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.26-rc4, released on May 26. In
addition to the usual fixes, there are quite a few driver updates in
various areas: DRI, networking, MMC, USB, watchdog, and IDE. There is also
a fix for 32-bit x86 users who have "too much memory" in their
machines. "So if you had PAE enabled _and_ a recent enough CPU to
have NX, but not recent enough to be 64-bit (or you were just perverse and
wanted to run a 32-bit kernel despite having a chip that could do 64-bit
and enough memory that you _really_ should have used a 64-bit kernel),
you'd get various random program failures with SIGSEGV. It ranged from X
not starting up to apparently OpenOffice not working if it did." As
always, all the gory details can be found in the long-format
changelog.
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