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2.6.19 Linux Kernel Released
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kdawson
on Thu Nov 30, 2006 02:48 PM
from the come-and-get-it dept.
from the come-and-get-it dept.
diegocgteleline.es writes, "After two months, Linux 2.6.19 has been released. It includes the clustering GFS2 filesystem, Ecryptfs, the first developer-oriented version of EXT4, support for the Atmel AVR32 architecture, sleepable RCU, improvements for NUMA-based systems, an "-o flush" mount option aimed at FAT-based hotpluggable media devices (mp3), physical CPU hotplug and memory hot-add in x86-64, support for compiling x86 kernels with the GCC stack protection, and many other things. You can check the full list of changes in LinuxChanges."
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GFS2 (Score:3, Interesting)
Hotplugging CPU and Memory?!?!? (Score:2)
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HA? Sparc procs? Not bloodly likely.
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Sounds like fun (Score:3, Funny)
It's one of those rare "perfect" kernels. So if it doesn't happen to compile with your config (or it does compile, but then does unspeakable acts of perversion with your pet dachshund), you can rest easy knowing that it's all your own d*mn fault, and you should just fix your evil ways.
You could send me and the kernel mailing list a note about it anyway, of course. (And perhaps pictures, if your dachshund is involved. Not that we'd be interested, of course. No. Just so that we'd know to avoid it next time).
So.. Who has a dachshund and a camera? And what does a kernel doing unspeakable acts of perversion with a dog look like anyway?
Re:Sounds like fun (Score:5, Funny)
i'd describe it but, it's unspeakable.
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this linux thingy must be taking off... (Score:5, Funny)
Do you have no shame? (Score:5, Funny)
It's people like you that make "Linux Genuine Advantage" necessary.
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firefox 2.0 find vs quick find (Score:2)
If you hit ctrl-f you get find with the [x]/next/previous/highlight all/match case widgets. If you hit / you activate quick find functionality which doesn't have those. No idea if there's a config setting to force quick find to have those widgets as well.
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TPM encryption (Score:5, Interesting)
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TPM is neither good nor bad
How operating systems and applications use TPM can be good or evil
In all that I've read about TPM, I've concluded that TPM is not much more than a glorified hardware based public/private key management system. The reference implementations I seen attach to the same slow hardware buses that PS/2 keyboard and mice sit. There is not enough bandwidth on that bus to encrypt/decrypt whole disks in real time.
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Except that TPM could easily hide weaknesses, backdoors, or worse from the user. Furthermore, the nature of TPM would prevent the user from ever discovering said "features".
No, not pure evil. But still not trustworthy, either. This is the kind of thing the NSA would love to have in every computer.
Slashdot anti-Linux bias (Score:5, Funny)
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First item under USB is Add Playstation 2 Trance Vibrator driver [kernelnewbies.org]
Is this the first sex toy to be officially supported by the Linux kernel?! Surely that's enough for front page news.
[FWIW] cryptfs (Score:2)
Pretty easy to set up, and no trouble so far, but annoying that it asks for the passphrase for each encrypted volume twice during boot, and and doesn't fail gracefully if you mistype anything.
Vista? (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Atmel AVR32 (Score:5, Informative)
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Atmel AVR32 not AVR butterfly (Score:3, Informative)
Don't get me wrong, I love the AVR microcontrollers - but we're talking a few K of RAM, 8 to 128K of Flash for the program, a smattering of EEPROM and a top speed of 16MHz. I would be impressed if you could run the Linux kernel on that.
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