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Kernel release statusKernel release statusPosted Jan 1, 2004 11:16 UTC (Thu) by wolfrider (guest, #3105)Parent article: Kernel release status > 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.)
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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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