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Kernel release status
The 2.6.28 kernel is out released on December 24. Some of the
highlights of this kernel are the addition of the GEM GPU memory manager, the ext4 filesystem
is no longer "experimental", scalability improvements in memory management
via the reworked vmap() and pageout scalability patches, moving the -staging drivers into the mainline,
and much more. See the excellent KernelNewbies
summary for lots more details about 2.6.28.
The current 2.6 stable kernel is 2.6.27.10 released on December 18 as well. It contains nearly two dozen fixes of some fairly serious problems in 2.6.27. (Log in to post comments)
Kernel release status Posted Dec 25, 2008 23:46 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
Agh, he totally ruined it for anybody but Pacific, and perhaps Mountain, Time Zone. Totally. One could hate it like hating imperial measuring units, Sunday being the first day (wtf?), archaic AM/PM (ever heard of 24?) or ... xmas being on Dec 25.
To be safe, packages need to be delivered by Dec 24 02:00 UTC, to account for the UTC+14 timezone under the assumption that the fest starts no earlier than 16:00 local time.
—grumpy reader.
Kernel release status Posted Dec 28, 2008 17:39 UTC (Sun) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]
> When they wake up tomorrow morning, tell them how you saw Santa
crawl down the chimney with his USB stick in hand, updating the OS of all good boys and girls.
Uptime ruined again... I hope Santa will next year use KSplice.
Kernel release status Posted Jan 6, 2009 0:12 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I'm pretty sure ksplice can't go from 2.6.x to 2.6.x+1!
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