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Gentoo Linux 2004.0Gentoo Linux 2004.0Posted Mar 4, 2004 14:32 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814)Parent article: Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Quote: "the Gentoo developers were unable to overcome numerous problems with integrating a fully functional 2.6 kernel into the distribution before the release - hence the experimental nature of the 2.6 kernel provided for experts, rather than general use." Any more info about what these problems are?
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Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Posted Mar 4, 2004 18:14 UTC (Thu) by komarek (guest, #7295) [Link] I'm running 2.6.3 on my gentoo system with no real problems. I adjusted the linux-headers package to use the 2.6.3 headers, and installed the new module-init-tools. I also had to build the most recent (and "masked") version of XFree86 (but before the license change) for 3D accel to work.Overall I found switching to 2.6 much less painful than the persistent Qt link problems. The "current" Qt package (as of last week or so) writes temporary paths into the shared libs. If portage "happens" to keep the build tree, you're in luck. If not, KDE won't build. I didn't use KDE much, and now I don't use it at all. Some Gnome packages are regularly messy, too. Kernel 2.6 was not particularly messy, though. -Paul Komarek
Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Posted Mar 5, 2004 0:59 UTC (Fri) by ladislav (guest, #247) [Link] No, no details. But if you search the Gentoo forums, you might be able to find some indications about the problems, e.g. this quote by one of the developers:"At the moment I am concentrating more on the 2.4.24-kernel since the 2.6-kernel seems to make more problems. I will try to get a 2.6-kernel onto the CD, but at the moment it looks like it will be a rather trivial kernel (SMP, no pcmcia, no wlan)." This is not to say that Gentoo's 2.6 can't be used; it just seems that the developers were not confident enough to throw it at the vast range of hardware configurations available on the market.
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