Linux 2.4.19 Released

Adrian Voinea writes "The latest stable Linux kernel (2.4.19) is out. The somewhat massive changelog has the details. The patch file is here and the full source is here. If possible use a mirror."

On a more serious note...

[electricmonk]

Can anybody here summarize any important changes that went on between 2.4.18 and 2.4.19? This changelog is just a ton of bug fixes between prereleases. Did they do anything interesting with it?

Re:neat

[morgajel]

....
apt-get kernel-source-2.4.19
unbzip2, untar etc...
make menuconfig
make dep clean bzImage modules modules install
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/newkern
lilo
lilo -q

I've only had it fail on one machine, and it had a crappy mobo.

Does dump work yet

[mosch]

A fundamental question. Does this release of 2.4 make it so that dump is now reliable, or is dump deprecated as a method of backup forever?

If it's the latter, can any of you linux gurus tell me what is the current "accepted" solution for making backups. Not archives or images, backups.

For those of you who are going to say dump works fine on 2.4, please read this message [lwn.net] from Linus Torvalds. I keep hoping he'll change his mind though, at least until a viable alternative arises.

ChangeLog summary anywhere?

[plaa]

Can anybody here summarize any important changes that went on between 2.4.18 and 2.4.19? This changelog is just a ton of bug fixes between prereleases. Did they do anything interesting with it?

This is exactly the thing I'd like to see someone make. A simple list of notable changes for the average kernel-compiling Linux user. I've been wanting such a list for several years now, but have never seen one.

Something in the form of, "If you which to use hardware X with option Y, you may wish to upgrade, as this version adds beta support for it. If you use option Z you should definately upgrade, there are many bugfixes. ..."

Is there any kind of ChangeLog summary available anywhere? And if not, why? I shouldn't think it would be such a big deal for someone with some knowledge of the kernel.

Anyone else notice that...

[randomErr]

Anyone else notice that in the last couple of days Microsoft's ad for Visual Studio .Net keeps coming up in the rotation when ever there is Linux story.

Wonder how much that cost them to buy those keywords? Could C. Taco be enjoying a quiet vacation on an island somewhere?

Re:ChangeLog summary anywhere?

[lakeland]

This is the stable release of the kernel (yes, I know you knew that already). That means it contains fixes, bug patches etc. for various exotic things (less exotic things would have been fixed before .19) and it doesn't contain any new significant features.

Now you say you want a changelog? And how exactly is someone to produce a changelog that shows you which bugfixes will apply to you? i386 only? Only affecting popular chipsets? Only affecting new hardware? Old hardware?

I guess my point is: There is no reason not to upgrade to 2.4.19. Unlike a major upgrade (e.g. 2.2 to 2.4) this is very, very unlikely to break anything.

ACPI

[Anonymous Coward]

I have had an Arm CY-13 with PhoenixBIOS for about 3-4 months. Right now I have zilch ACPI support for 2.4.18. Is there anyone who has tried the ACPI with the new kernel? If so, does it work at all?

rsync access to source files not tarballs

[Kalak]

One thing I really with kernel releases had was a way to rsync/cvs/bk whatever to the release kernel. That way only the files that have been changed get sent. kernel.org's rsync is setup to let you mirror the site, but not the individual kernel. I'm thinking of the kind of access provided to the kernel sources on the penguinppc.org project [slashdot.org]. That way, I can start with any bastardized kernel source and arrive at a pristine new source dir without using up the bandwith to download the whole thing. Heck, I can even exclude the architectures I'm not using, saving even more bandwidth.

Anyone know if/where to get this kind of access to the kernels?

Re:Does dump work yet

[BlowChunx]

Forgive my ignorance, but doesn't rsync provide the same ability to do incremental backups?