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Old 12-18-2003, 06:05 AM   #1 (permalink)
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2.6.0 is out ...
... http://kernel.org/

Happy holidays on the bleeding edge

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Old 12-18-2003, 08:06 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Compiling now............
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Old 12-18-2003, 08:14 AM   #3 (permalink)
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This will give me something to do tonight....(puts off holliday shopping)
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Old 12-18-2003, 09:37 AM   #4 (permalink)
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noob questions, why do I would need to upgrade to 2.6.0 kernel from 2.4.22?
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Old 12-18-2003, 10:56 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Yippee!

Also, washe, kernel 2.6 is supposed to improve responsiveness overall through preemption, and I hear that cd writing is way less CPU intensive because they got rid of scsi emulation in there and can talk to ATAPI devices directly now.

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Compilation is way faster and there a few less steps. The system seems faster and smoother to me, still doing some testing but overall a good experience, so far that is......
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Old 12-18-2003, 01:14 PM   #7 (permalink)
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mmm ill wait for some more feedback installing and suceffully compiling a new kernel takes quite some time
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Old 12-18-2003, 01:43 PM   #8 (permalink)
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the new menuconfig interface is great. Any idea if the nvidia module still has problems with the 2.6 kernel?
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Two things, first if you're running Fedora Core 1, you can already pick up a precompiled 2.6.0 kernel in rpm format here. Tis double click and reboot goodness if you (like me) can't get USB working right.

To get a working nvidia driver with 2.6.0 just get the patched version from here.

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Old 12-19-2003, 05:57 AM   #10 (permalink)
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There is also a pretty comprehensive explanation of what's been updated or added here:
http://kniggit.net/wwol26.html

Things are looking pretty nifty in penguin land
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