Linux 2.6.16 released

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux 2.6.16 has been released after two months and two weeks of development. You can check the comprehensible changelog (text mirror of the site). The new features include OCFS2, a clustering filesystem contributed by Oracle, new unshare(), pselect()/ppoll() and *at() system calls, support the moving of the physical location of pages between nodes in NUMA systems, support for the Cell processor, cpufreq support for G5s plus thermal control for dualcore G5s, improved power management support for many devices and subsystems (libata, alsa...), a new mutex locking primitive, high-resolution timers, per-mountpoint noatime/nodiratime, 64-to-32-bit ioctl compatibility for the v4l2 subsystem, IPv6 support for DCCP, the TIPC protocol (Transparent Inter Process Communication, ACL support for CIFS filesystem, HFSX filesystem support, new configfs filesystem (which complements sysfs, not replaces it), support for running executables from v9fs (plan9 9P distributed filesystem), support for many new devices, improved support for others and lots of other changes. Check it out from kernel.org"

But....

[Anonymous Coward]

does it run Linux?

Inconcievable!

[old_skul]

"Comprehensible"? I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Bugs

[SheeEttin]

Well, I've been using it for a few minutes, but it seems that there are a few bugs, like whe8#@4!n;)NO CARRIER

Re:Obligatory question...

[smittyoneeach]

Hey, man, in the grandest governmetn tradition: if it ain't broke, fix it until it is. ;)

Two Months, and Two Weeks!

[tyleroar]

Linux 2.6.16 has been released after two months and two weeks of development.

Goddamned I can't believe they made an entire kernel in two months and two weeks.

Re:Two Months, and Two Weeks!

[Anonymous Coward]

Remarkable isn't it? Others take six years to release a ui update! :)

Re:Great!

[MyLongNickName]

You have linux installed on your toilet? And you need to upgrade it the minute a new release is available? You really are l33t!

Re:Linux 3.0 ?

[Anonymous Coward]

It will never. Linux 2.6 is considered as almort perfect.

Soon there will rename it "Linux 16" instead of Linux 2.6.16, juste lie Emacs, cause there will never be a major version number upgrade anymore :)

Re:cdrecord

[Anonymous Coward]

And this brings us to today's informal open source poll.

Who's the bigger prick: Jorg Schilling, Larry McVoy, or David Dawes?

Re:Cell

[grahamlee]

Can anybody take a guess on how good cell is for video encoding

Three and a bit.

Re:Cell

[Anonymous Coward]

Hah! You are clearly the biggest moron to have ever walked this earth! Your knowlege and abilities are so laughable you should simply crawl back under whichever rock you live beneath and stay there, never to darken these hallowed pages of Slashdot ever again. I question wether you have ever even seen a computer before, let alone what in the world leads you to believe that you are in any way qualified to talk authoritatively about the subject. Your grammar is also laughably poor; who but a simpleton would use a sentence fragment?

Anyway, as any idiot knows, the correct answer is two and three quarters, give or take a smidgen.

Re:Great!

[squallbsr]

NetBSD has had Toilet support for the past 4 years! Nothing new here, move along...

More syscalls

[DrSkwid]

Great, that's just what Linux was lacking.

Re:Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

upgrading my toilets kernel has always been a crap shoot.

Re:Obligatory question...

[SkunkPussy]

3. Are you really that concerned with upgrading your kernel again? It's not a status symbol afterall.

4. I'm still running 2.4.x because I have no need to run 2.6.x (I use it strictly as a console machine) Linux supplication 2.4.32 #4 Tue Jan 3 18:35:16 CST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

But yet you've bothered to compile the latest 2.4.x release?! Do you see still running 2.4 as some kind of inverted status symbol? :)

Having said that, they still don't have as good SW RAID support in 2.6 as they did in 2.4 (in the most recent 2.6 I've tried, dmraid/lilo don't allow you to boot from a proprietary HighPoint SW RAID-0 disc, whereas this was perfectly achievable in 2.4 - so instead of dual booting, I am forced to use a bootable usb flash drive to get into linux!!).

Re:But....

[HermanAB]

You'd think - until you encounter a really old web server running RedHat 6.2. It almost completely, but not quite, doesn't run Linux... ;)