2.5.4 Kernel Out

Saint Aardvark writes: "Just in time for my 30th birthday, the new kernel is out...how did he know? Thanks, Linus! Change log here. I usually stick to stable stuff, but I think I'll try this for fun." Reader Scooby Snacks writes: "Be sure to use the patches and pick from the fine list of mirrors."

Having trouble with 2.4.17, should I get this?

[knulleke]

Well, I'm still having trouble with 2.4.17 on my AMD. A couple of weeks ago it was suggested here that I should add "nopentium" to my boot parameters but after that the machine doesn't feel as fast anymore (can't understand why; it should not be noticable)

Parsing the changelog, I don't see that many changes with potential enormous impact. Should I consider trying this version because many problems are straightened out or should I wait for a next "stable" 2.4.x?

I did see something regarding AGP (which I believe to be the source of my problems, as they go away if I disable 3D support) Linus said something about a workaround for AGP problems until a real solution was found. Doesn't look very encouraging, but hey...

What's good about 2.5

[Anonymous Coward]

What's the big new stuff / benifits we can expect from 2.5 series???

Thumbs up

[serps]

Not being anything remotely resembling a kernal hacker, it was great to see and compare some of the (proposed) changes between 2.4.x and the new 2.5 fork at the recent linux.conf.au [linux.conf.au]. The speaker, Rusty Russell, took us through the netfilter and scheduler code (2.4.13 vs 2.5.3) and it was a real eye-opener. I don't claim to be a C wizard, but I can tell elegance when I see it, and some of the code overhauls certainly have that ring to them.

I'm interested ...

[tyrius]

After seeing so many posts on the preemptible patch [slashdot.org] being including into Linus' tree, I would have thought that everyone would be dying to try the first dev release with it incoporated. Give it test drive and see if that is really a useful feature.
Or does everyone here REALLY run Win XP ??

Re:I'm interested ...

[Anonymous Coward]

There's also wellworking preemptible patch for 2.4.xx kernels so no need to use 2.5.x stuff.

Re:Werid day...

[dramaley]

What are the 2.0 kernels still being developed for? I'm not trying to troll, i'm seriously curious. I run 2.4 on my workstations and 2.2 on my firewall (a system based around 2.4 isn't small enough to easily fit on a floppy). Could someone give an example of an application where a 2.0 kernel would be better than a 2.2 or a 2.4?