2.6.1 kernel is out

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:29:45 -0500
Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:

> Sounds like some people were chomping at the bit whe Linus put the feature-freeze on 2.6 :)  There are quite a few "ADD" entries here

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Jst a recommendation: in future, do the dialup users a favor and post a url instead of including a massive list like this inline!

Yes, a lot of changes piled up here (including the latest changes to alsa that a lot of folks were waiting on).  I'm now on 2.6.1-mm2 with even more fixes.

Not that I've needed any of this.  I've been on 2.6 since late 2.5.x days, and the only hint of a problem was at about 2.6.4 (?) when some ill-advised scheduler changes caused a little bit of sluggishness.  From day 1, even the nvidia crap worked as well as it did on 2.4.  My other machine has an nvidia card, and on any kernel release it has always gotten lots of kernel error messages from the nvidia modules.

As long as you read the recommendations for transition to 2.6 (google for this) and most especially insure that your .config has the necessary support for using a terminal (defaults have changed since 2.4), you probably won't notice any difference except that some folks have reported that the system now runs faster.

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Collins

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Collins