Linux 2.6.26 Out

diegocgteleline.es writes "After three months, Linux 2.6.26 has been released. It adds support for read-only bind mounts, x86 PAT (Page Attribute Tables), PCI Express ASPM (Active State Power Management), ports of KVM to IA64, S390 and PPC, other KVM improvements including basic paravirtualization support, preliminary support of the future 802.11s wireless mesh standard, much improved webcam support thanks to a driver for UVC devices, a built-in memory tester, a kernel debugger, BDI statistics and parameters exposure in /sys/class/bdi, a new /proc/PID/mountinfo file for more accurate information about mounts, per-process securebits, device white-list for containers users, support for the OLPC, some new drivers and many small improvements. Here is the full list of changes."

Does it disturb anyone else?

[Anonymous Coward]

It adds support for read-only bind mounts, x86 PAT (Page Attribute Tables), PCI Express ASPM (Active State Power Management), ports of KVM to IA64, S390 and PPC, other KVM improvements including basic paravirtualization support, preliminar support of the future 802.11s wireless mesh standard, much improved webcam support thanks to a driver for UVC devices, a built-in memory tester, a kernel debugger, BDI statistics and parameters exposure in /sys/class/bdi,

Does it disturb anyone else how many words the bsdm & linux kernel community have in common? (this is not a troll).

Frankly, I blame IBM.

Ah but does it run Linux?!?

[Anonymous Coward]

Just wondering... ;)

Re:Kernel debugger?

[HvitRavn]

I found this article on Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] but it doesn't say much except "A kernel debugger is a debugger present in some kernels to ease debugging and kernel development by the kernel developers". Can someone whip out a cluebat please?

Re:Ah but does it run Linux?!?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes it does, and I can even imagine a beowulf cluster of them!

Re:init post

[Anonymous Coward]

Ugh, still no token ring support. And it's distributed under the GPL License. I think I'll recommend all my fortune 500 clients stick with windows server 2003.

Re:Ah but does it run Linux?!?

[phobos13013]

These changes will now make 2008, THE year for the linux desktop!

Re:Real writeable NTFS?

[Gothmolly]

Careful, some of those other filesystems really kill performance.

Re:Real writeable NTFS?

[plus_M]

You know, this joke has been beaten to death for the past month or so. Can't you lay it to rest?

Re:Does it disturb anyone else?

[something_wicked_thi]

Nah, SATA gets rid of all that. No more master and slave. Now, we submit to the controller.

Re:Ah but does it run Linux?!?

[Jellybob]

Sure, just install Xen, and then you can indeed make it run Linux.

If you're feeling really masochistic, you could even create a beowulf cluster of Linux boxes, running Linux, with Linux running on them. /me watches his head explode.

Re:Good point, but...

[H0p313ss]

...if your friend/colleague/whatever wants to use an NTFS-formatted drive on your computer, he might be a little unhappy if you reformat it.

I put NTFS support on my Linux computers and Ext2/Ext3 support [fs-driver.org] (and a proper formatting tool) on my Windows computers. It's called interoperability.

Nice one

Can't figure out if I should moderate as insightful, funny or +1 quality bitchsmack

Re:is the bug with 20+k interrupts on dual core

[hostyle]

fixed? it eatz up my battery like you know who ...

who? ceiling cat?

Re:Does it disturb anyone else?

[value_added]

Nah, SATA gets rid of all that. No more master and slave. Now, we submit to the controller.

Actually, submitting to the controller is redundant. I guess that makes the above a joke within a joke for those who thought otherwise. From the relevant Wiki article [wikipedia.org]:

In fact, the drivers in the host operating system perform the necessary arbitration and serialization, and each drive's controller operates independently. Both are really "slaves" to the driver in the host OS.

And because SATA presents the ATA interface to the system (the difference being how the chips are connected to the drive), you could say there's an additional joke in there, but one only those using SCSI would find funny.

Re:Does it disturb anyone else?

[Bloodoflethe]

And because SATA presents the ATA interface to the system (the difference being how the chips are connected to the drive), you could say there's an additional joke in there, but one only those using SCSI would find funny.

Too true.

Re:Clever new tools for kernel config

[slashflood]

Clever, but takes some time:

1. make randconfig
2. Compile, install and boot the kernel
3. If your system doesn't boot or lacks a driver, goto 1.

Re:Real writeable NTFS?

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

We can give you closure, if you cut us a deal.

Re:Kernel debugger?

[SiggyTheViking]

Can someone whip out a cluebat please?

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There. Did that help?

Re:Clever new tools for kernel config

[Zero__Kelvin]

"That's where the kernel source comes in. you take 3 minutes and set it up and another 3 minutes (or hours, if you prefer the good-ol 386) to compile it."

Either:

1. You have never configured and compiled a Linux kernel before, or ...

2. You are the absolute worlds worst estimator of temporal resource requirements on the planet.

There are 1155 options to configure:

[Zero__Kelvin@stormbringer linux-2.6.git]$ git branch
master
* v2.6.26-deeppurple-eldd
v2.6.26-rc7-deeppurple
v2.6.26-rc8-deeppurple
[Zero__Kelvin@strombringer linux-2.6.git]$ grep CONFIG .config | grep -v \# | wc -l
1155

Granted a make oldconfig will give you a baseline with which to work, but you still need to sift through all of those and verify you have what you want. 3 minutes isn't enought time to verify the networking options.

Re:Kernel debugger?

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

XML tags are lowercase.

Cardboard Man (or Woman)

[foxylad]

++Insightful.

I've lost count of the number of times I've explained some esoteric bug to my wife, and shouted "AHA!" in the middle. The success rate is high, so long as you have a patient partner, and can ignore the glazed look.