The 2.6.17 kernel is out [LWN.net]

Linus has announced the 2.6.17 kernel. For those of you just tuning in, some of the highlights from the 2.6.17 development cycle include SPARC "Niagara" architecture support, an H.323 netfilter connection tracking helper, lightweight robust futexes, on-the-fly RAID5 array resizing, user-space software suspend, support for Broadcom 43xx wireless chipsets, and the splice(), vmsplice(), tee(), and sync_file_range() system calls. See the long-format changelog for the details.

The 2.6.17 kernel is out

Posted Jun 19, 2006 19:04 UTC (Mon) by Thue (guest, #14277) [Link] (1 responses)

I like the last entry in the changelog :) :

    Linux v2.6.17
    
    Being named "Crazed Snow-Weasel" instills a lot of confidence in this
    release, so I'm sure this will be one of the better ones.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17

The 2.6.17 kernel is out

Posted Jun 19, 2006 21:10 UTC (Mon) by proski (guest, #104) [Link]

Linus must be a fan of "The Future is Wild", in particular of the Snowstalker. Apparently Linus shares his passion to snow dwelling mustelidae with Debian developers who proposed to call Mozilla Firefox Iceweasel.

If Linus is ever knighted, his coat of arms should use ermine in addition to the penguins.

The 2.6.17 kernel is out

Posted Jun 19, 2006 21:43 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

I like that I now can use my 'Airport Extreme' card in Debian. I am currently using a 2.6.17 release canadate and having good luck with the bcm43xx driver.

These broadcom chipsets are among the most popular 54mbit wireless adapters. This should eliminate the need for most of the people stuck on using those horrid ndiswrapper based drivers.

Already a bugfix

Posted Jun 20, 2006 20:49 UTC (Tue) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

2.16.17.1 is already out with an SCTP bugfix, and it looks like someone kept their promise since 2.6.16.21 seems to have the fix backported to the 2.6.16 tree!

Palm sync on Dapper

Posted Jun 20, 2006 22:58 UTC (Tue) by stephenjudd (guest, #3227) [Link]

From what I'm hearing it fixes a most important Ubuntu Dapper bug (bug 38574) with Palm syncing which has prevented most people from syncing successfully.

The 2.6.17 kernel is out

Posted Jun 21, 2006 12:20 UTC (Wed) by blietaer (guest, #19752) [Link]

Any idea why 2.6.17.1 came so fast?

I am the kind of freak who compiles the latest kernel within the week of release (yes, I _also_ use Linux for other purposes ;)

But is it wise/efficient?
Kernel Logs show rarely improvements that directly affects my config...