Meet Linux Kernel 2.6.2, 'Feisty Dunnart' 260
hatrisc writes "As of about 10:04 pm on February 3rd, Linux users can grab the official 2.6.2 kernel release from kernel.org.
A lot of PPC fixes. Changelog is here." omniru writes "Linux kernel 2.6.2 aka 'Feisty Dunnart' released," and adds some possibly useful information "about Dunnarts, in case you've never heard of them before. Changes include ACPI, Bluetooth, USB, XFS and many more improvements and fixes." gowdy suggests eager downloaders use a mirror.
linux.conf.au (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:linux.conf.au (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, to correct myself, the Tasmanian Devil is not a type of Dunnart, although they both belong to the genus "Sminthopsis".
Re:linux.conf.au (Score:5, Interesting)
Tassie Devils and Dunnarts are in the same family, Dasyuridae. They are not in the same genus; the Tassie Devil belongs to the genus Sarcophilus (specifically, Sarcophilus laniarius.)
This page [umich.edu] has a pretty neat browser of the taxonomy of the Dasyuridae family (amongst others).
I've seen a couple of dunnart species, Fat-tailed Dunnart and Chestnut Dunnart, in the wild. They are cute, particularly when mum has the kids hanging to her back. While the resemble mice, they're actually quite ferocious insectivores (with nasty, big, pointy teeth - well, pointy anyway.)
Re:linux.conf.au (Score:2)
Re:linux.conf.au (Score:5, Funny)
Good thing he didn't pick up the Crocodile Dundee, Steve Irwin, or a naked aborigena. But then, given the size of the Linux tarball these days, I think Ayers Rock would have been more appropriate than a 50 gram rodent
Re:linux.conf.au (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.deh.gov.au/parks/uluru/
Re:linux.conf.au (Score:2)
So if we're writeing in Englush - We can all say Ayers Rock.
Other languages will have their own names for it but I doubt that the written form that that the first-settelars in Australua lookes even remotly like the psudo-engliish "Uluru"
Re:linux.conf.au (Score:2)
Re:linux.conf.au (Score:5, Informative)
It was more than inspiration. Linus did a charitable fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis, and offered to name the next release after the Austrialian animal of the highest bidder's choice. Someone gave a few thousand dollars ($3600 to be exact) to choose this name. Next Linux kernel to get Aussie name [zdnet.com.au]
Re:linux.conf.au (Score:2, Informative)
Here is the lkml announcement
Linus' announcement [theaimsgroup.com]
and the guy who named it here [unsw.edu.au]
Nick
Should be a good release (Score:2)
Sminthopsis crassicaudata crassicaudata (Score:5, Informative)
Awwwwwww....
Re:Sminthopsis crassicaudata crassicaudata (Score:5, Funny)
Better not show it to Disney's lawyers or they'll be suing it for copyright infringement.
Re:Sminthopsis crassicaudata crassicaudata (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sminthopsis crassicaudata crassicaudata (Score:5, Funny)
Awwwwwww....
Yum! I'm sure they taste good!
Re:Sminthopsis crassicaudata crassicaudata (Score:2)
Now we know what happens when a gerbil and a fox do it. I just hope the gerbil was the male.
Use a mirror?? (Score:5, Funny)
Come on slashdot, you can do better than that!!!
Re:Use a mirror?? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Use a mirror?? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Use a mirror?? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Use a mirror?? (Score:2)
as in a new paradigem of spelling?
Re:Use a mirror?? (Score:2)
Or maybe the Coward doesn't know how to spell. They're both good answers.
Re:Use a mirror?? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Use a mirror?? (Score:2)
Re:Use a mirror?? (Score:5, Informative)
Call me a Karma whore, but the parent is right, this is exactly the kind of legitimate use BT was made for. (Plus hey, I'm running my orn tracker and made the torrent, so I should get something for my trouble and Karma is about all I'm likely to get.
Be sure to checksum it against the kernel.org checksum [kernel.org]
Re:Use a mirror?? (Score:2)
I'm pretty sure their bandwidth is donated (much like their hardware).
donated != free (Score:2)
- Because it was donated to me.
Someone pays for the bandwidth. The bandwidth donor might be able to pay for something else instead if less bandwidth was used. Or the donor could donate bandwidth to some other project instead.
Re:Use a mirror?? (Score:2)
I'd imagine being able to cap upload/download speed and disk space used so that you aren't terribly inconvenienced, but if it was just a checkbox in the latest distro, it'd sure make updates fast, responsive, and cut hosting costs down to the bone for the distro.
I know I wouldn't mind sharing a few MB of disk space and 5-10 Kbps "for the cause". Wouldn't yo
Inside info (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Inside info (Score:4, Funny)
2.6 Kernel was called 'Heathen Chemistry' along the core programmers before it was released.
Heathen Chemistry? Sounds like crystal meth to me. Will those pinko commie gay nazi 'free software' liberals stop at nothing in their maniacal quest to corrupt our children? Is our children safe?
Re:Inside info (Score:2)
Now we know about RH's evil plans to destroy Linux (Score:4, Funny)
So now Linux' mascot is a dunnart uh?
Well check out this picture [unsw.edu.au] from the link in the
Scary if you ask me
Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:5, Insightful)
Personally I upgraded from 2.6.0-test11 to 2.6.1-rc3 in order to fix the famous local security exploit. User-mode linux still doesn't work well, but since the 2.6.0-test3 version of the virtual machine on 2.6.1 hosts works mostly (newer umls don't work), I decide to ignore the problem for now. Unluckily the SMTP server of my mail provider has trouble contacting lists.sourceforge.net, so I can't even submit a bug report :(
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:2)
I never bothered to track it down, yes I know I'm a bad geek Perhaps if it still shows up I will poke more.
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:2)
I think I might be experiencing a similar problem on 2.6.1... even when the system should be idle, the hard drive is active for about half a second every 5 seconds or so. No space is being taken up on my drives, but if I do an lsof I can see a file descriptor (/proc/[pid_of_lsof]/fd) that's very large and is larger every time I check it.
On a probably unrelated issue, I came home yesterday to my machine with the hard drive running CONSTANTLY and I was unable to eli
Look out for drive failure (Score:2)
When some blocks of my hard drive failed, it would retry for a long time. During such time anything attempting to access the drive locks up, the drive makes a half-second noise every 5 seconds (the HD LED is always on), and a lot of DMA errors show up in the kernel logs.
I can't explain the enlarging fd number though.
Re:Look out for drive failure (Score:2)
I'll be putting on 2.6.2 when I get home. We'll see if that makes a difference.
I'm not running anything like [folding|seti|yeti|etc]@home that should be keeping the system active. Not that I'm aware of anyway
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:2)
Maybe you should check lsof as well?
the entry looks like this on my system:
lsof 7518 root 4r DIR 0,3 0 492699657
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:2)
So I guess that's not my culprit. I still wonder what's keeping my drive running when it should be idle...
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:2, Informative)
It only takes around a minute ("yum update" for me on Fedora 1) so I figure what the heck... since I power down for the nights anyway it's not a problem.
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Time to switch!!! (Score:2)
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:2)
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:2, Funny)
They're like these things here, except nobody pays attention to them.
Oh. Wait.
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:2)
There's another annoying keyboard related bug as well - sometimes when I unplug my USB keyboard, something screws up in the input layer or something as the laptop internal keyboard stops working and so does the USB keyboard if I plug it back in.
Yeah yeah, use the PS/2 port you say.. well I have lots of USB devices and I like being able to just plug in one (the hub) when I get home with my laptop
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:2)
Re:Anything broken? IP Masquerading. (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Anything broken? IP Masquerading. (Score:5, Informative)
I intend to send a "minimal" patch to Marcelo soon.
Re:Anything broken? IP Masquerading. (Score:2, Informative)
* [NETFILTER]: Fix NAT leak with fragmented packets, missing conntrack put in ip_copy_metadata()
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:2)
I'd be more than happy to upgrade, if there's a tangible performance advantage... anyone?
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:2)
Re:Anything broken? Otherwise why upgrade? (Score:2)
From here, there is precisely ONE thing broken that I keep hoping someone will figure out how to fix...
For some bizarre reason, on my laptop, when the power source state changes from what it was at startup (i.e. if I plug in AC after I've powered on from battery, or if I unplug from AC after starting up on AC) I lose the Synaptics touchpad completely, and can't get it to work again without a complete power-down and restart.
Very annoying, but not totally fatal since USB mouse still works, and it doesn't ap
Uh oh (Score:5, Funny)
[Bluetooth] Always use two ISOC URB's
This patch modifies the USB Bluetooth driver to use two ISOC URB's
per RX and TX transfer paths. This is needed for in time transfer
of SCO audio packets over HCI.
Linux is using SCO audio packets too??? Don't let them find out or they'll add it to their lawsuit
Re:Uh oh (Score:5, Informative)
I'm sorry--this is so not funny (Score:2)
I dream of fedora... (Score:2, Interesting)
HOPEFULLY they'll get swsusp working so I can actually have a reason to use Linux on my laptop (despite being a Linux-only guy since 1995, swsusp hanging my system on every 2nd or 3rd reboot has forced me into the arms of MS. Well, that as well as Centrino wireless support, and digital video editing.)
Fedora... (Score:2)
Unfortunately, according the Fedora website, the release of test1 for Core 2 has been delayed [redhat.com]. I'd assume it means the final release will be delayed because of that too.
My plan until then is to try one of the kernel-2.6.x rpms in the development directory in Core 1. Though they haven't put out 2.6 kernel updates as part of the up2date updates, they
WARNING DANGER (Score:2)
XFS/NFS (Score:4, Informative)
<nathans@sgi.com>
[XFS] Seperate the NFS reference cache code out from xfs_rw.c to simpli
fy management of different kernel versions.
Hopeing that fixes it
Rus
Dunnart? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dunnart? (Score:2)
Darl is only making money because nobody has shot him yet. Wait for his crimes to bankrupt someone and we'll see who has the last laugh.
where have all the dunnarts gone? (Score:2, Informative)
Dammit... (Score:5, Funny)
Simon
Re:Dammit... (Score:2)
Discount? (Score:5, Funny)
Thank (Score:5, Funny)
[SCTP] Remove the extra semicolon in sctp_cacc_skip_3_1().
it was REALLY slowing down the performance on my machine!
Re:Thank (Score:5, Funny)
Looking for RPMS. (Score:4, Funny)
Google wack! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Google wack! (Score:2)
ACL? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:ACL? (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, ACLs are supported on most filesystems. Ext2/Ext3, JFS, XFS, and the /dev/pts fs. No ReiserFS yet though :(
Re:ACL? (Score:5, Informative)
Note that you need to add the mount option "acl" for the ext3 filesystem. It is documented in the latest tune2fs manpage. Then you can use "setfacl" (the version in RH9 is usable) to set the ACL like this:
The user named "b" can now read goose.c.USB-Storage? (Score:5, Interesting)
??
Re:USB-Storage? (Score:2)
I wish I could be more helpfull, but...
Re:USB-Storage? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:USB-Storage? (Score:2)
Well, here's the whole situation: I have an MP3 player with internal memory and also a slot that accepts an SD card. In 2.4.20, I could only see the internal memory. I read that this was fixed in 2.4.21, but 2.4.24 was the latest, so I got that.
In 2.4.24, when I plug the sucker in and turn it on, the internal and external memory show up as the two next available SCSI devices. When I temporarily moved to 2.6.1, I made sure that I had the USB kernel stuff configured the same way. U
Weird entry in the changelog spotted! (Score:5, Funny)
ATI? (Score:2)
How about a Feature Summary/Overview... (Score:2)
What features does 2.6 have?
What features does 2.6 have that 2.4 does not?
Re:How about a Feature Summary/Overview... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:How about a Feature Summary/Overview... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How about a Feature Summary/Overview... (Score:2)
but that's just my experience on two different machines.
Goooo! (Score:4, Funny)
Oh... (Score:5, Funny)
It was gonna be 'Wallaby' (Score:2, Flamebait)
Linus Torvalds has auctioned off the right to name the next Linux kernel [zdnet.co.uk]
It could have been worse I suppose... ;)
[root@Linux233 linux]# uname -a
Linux Linux233.linicks.net 2.6.2 #1 Wed Feb 4 13:55:28 GMT 2004 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Nick
2.6 Upgrade Headaches (Score:3, Interesting)
I've upgraded all the software specified in Changes, but it's a real pain trying to figure out what features to include when doing a "make xconfig". I finally got PPP working after some screwing around, but getting the correct sound modules and making them work correctly has me stumped, as well as some other little things.
Is a major kernel upgrade usually such a chore, or am I just an idiot? (Or maybe I just have atypical hardware). There're friends I know who would like to run Linux, but if upgrading to the 2.6 tree is usually so difficult I think I'll suggest they wait until the major distributions come with the new kernel already set up.
Re:2.6 Upgrade Headaches (Score:2, Informative)
2.4.x -> 2.6.x is quite a big step to get right.
I followed this 'how-to' here [thomer.com], and then added some other stuff needed to do also (linked on the page).
Nick
Re:2.6 Upgrade Headaches (Score:2, Informative)
I had some trouble with this, too. I don't know how SuSE handles it, but the solution for me was:
Craig
Still no SBP2 fixes (Score:2)
Why do I have to unplug and replug the firewire cable several times every time I reboot? It gets timeout errors and all sorts of problems. Often all the devices are not detected (I have 3 hard-drives and a DVD-R in the chain).
I think we need a new person working on the SBP2 stuff. It has been broken for so freaking long it's not even funny.
Changelog Translation (Score:5, Insightful)
Basically... (Score:2)
Re:Changelog Translation (Score:2)
Yes, but consider that compiling and installing Linux kernels is not average Joes like installing Winamp is. Kernel compiles and updates are for power users and developers, and they do prefer more detailed information. Average Joes should wait until
release notes? (Score:2)
ACPI again? (Score:2)
Can someone comment why this is taking so long to mature, or are they keeping up with all new hardware released.
Still no fix for file corruption with VIA chipset (Score:2, Informative)
Bug entry #1842
Both IDE and SATA Via chipset 8237 give file corruption.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842
Re:Useful upgrade information (Score:3, Funny)
So I guess I'll be sticking with Linux a little longer.
Re:Namespace of kernel nicks... (Score:2)
(The problem here is that when the sub-versions get into the double digits, sorts are strange. They ought to call it 2.006.002 (though probably 2.06.02 would work just as well, it would risk getting mistaken for a date).