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Kernel release status
The current development kernel is 2.6.0 (we're not quite ready to
call it a fully stable kernel yet). This kernel was released by Linus on December 17, right
after last week's LWN Weekly Edition went out saying it hadn't been
released. Linus, we think, does this on purpose. Anyway, this kernel
contains a small number of very small patches; see the long-format changelog for the details.
As of this writing, there are no patches in Linus's BitKeeper repository. The current stable kernel is 2.4.23; Marcelo released the second 2.4.24 prepatch on December 22. This prepatch adds some ACPI fixes, various driver updates, an XFS update, and various other fixes. (Log in to post comments)
Kernel release status Posted Dec 24, 2003 20:17 UTC (Wed) by freethinker (guest, #4397) [Link] > Linus, we think, does this on purpose.You are smoking crack. Signed, Linus. ;)
Kernel release status Posted Dec 25, 2003 4:03 UTC (Thu) by leonid (subscriber, #4891) [Link] > Linus, we think, does this on purpose.I can see it now: every Thursday Linus read the LWN and gets reminded that there was no kernel release... That puts him in an uncomfortable situation, you know. :)
Kernel release status Posted Jan 1, 2004 11:16 UTC (Thu) by wolfrider (guest, #3105) [Link] > The current development kernel is 2.6.0 (we're not quite ready to call it a fully stable kernel yet).+1 Insightful ;-) --Kernel 2.6.0 is definitely not as "capable" as the 2.4 series yet; I'm running it on 2 testboxes (1 real == P166 laptop, 1 vmware) and stuff like LVM **isn't there** -- so I can't "upgrade" my main box to 2.6 yet. Not to mention that nvidia and vmware don't (yet) have "2.6 official" drivers. Framebuffer support also has issues, and a lot of the SCSI code doesn't have error checking yet. ' cdrecord -scanbus ' is broken, too (at least with knoppix 2003-11-19 installed to HD. You also have to apt-get install linux-kernel-headers and use gcc 2.95 to successfully compile 2.6.) --The improvements that *do* show clearly (so far) in 2.6 are better compile times, and much more "spiffyness" (interactive response) when using X. They did a nice menu redesign for make menuconfig, as well. --Realistically, I won't be upgrading to 2.6.x on my main boxes until prolly 2.6.5 or so, or whenever things stabilize to the point where it matches current 2.4 functionality. (I'm really looking fwd to Reiserfs 4 tho.)
Kernel release status Posted Jan 1, 2004 18:50 UTC (Thu) by ernest (subscriber, #2355) [Link] > ... and stuff like LVM **isn't there** ...LVM 1 isn't supported anymore, is replaced by LVM 2, but it's compatable, you only need new tools. Try 'apt-get install lvm2' > ... use gcc 2.95 to successfully compile 2.6 This is definitly not true. I've been using gcc 3.x.x since quite a while to compile the kernel (now: 3.3.2) without any problem. All the 2.6-test kernels I tried, except test-8, functioned without any problems. And even with test-8, the problem wasn't compiler related.
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