Configuring the 2.6 Linux Kernel 279
An anonymous reader writes "This article is the first in a series by William von Hagen on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel, with a special emphasis on the primary issues in migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel. Bill is the author of Linux Filesystems, Hacking the TiVo, SGML for Dummies, Installing Red Hat Linux 7, and is the coauthor of The Definitive Guide to GCC (with Kurt Wall) and The Mac OS X Power Users Guide (with Brian Profitt)." This looks to be a good series for anyone planning to migrate to Linux 2.6, and having done just that myself, I'll attest to wanting more documentation along the way.
Re:SCTP support (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 (Score:5, Funny)
Gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo!
Re:The Communist-Linux Connection (Score:3, Funny)
just in time (Score:3, Funny)
seems like a few other people have this problem. Does anyone know the solution? Will i have to write the addresses of all the ports manualy and switch off ISAPNP for OPL3SA2?
Re:is it so much different than 2.4? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The Communist-Linux Connection (Score:2, Funny)
Send in the clones!
The Computer is your friend!
Re:Usability? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:2.6 breaks KVM support (Score:5, Funny)
Could you please point me to the click-n-drool option button in Windows2000 that allows me to enable command-line completion? What, I have to manually edit the registry? D00d, Windoze isn't ready for the masses...
Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 (Score:2, Funny)
with many apologies to everyone.
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Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 (Score:2, Funny)
Um, I *have* a working gentoo, today. Or do you mean a working gentoo using NPTL? If that's the case, then yeah, your apache test page appears to be working very well.
Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 (Score:4, Funny)
ya, only if you're using the unstable packages...
Re:Do it the easy way : Get Manadrake 10-beta2 (Score:1, Funny)
gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo...
Re:HOW TO REMOVE LINUX AND INSTALL WINDOWS XP (Score:1, Funny)
* File sharing. Windows has long been superior when it comes to making large
amounts of files available to third parties. Even early versions of Windows
automatically detected and made available all directories thanks to the built in
NetBIOS-powered file sharing support. But Microsoft has realized that this
technology is inherently limited and has added even better file sharing support
to its Windows XP operating system [toastytech.com]. Universal Plug and Play will [esecurityplanet.com]
make it possible to literally access any file, from any device! I think
universal file sharing support needs to be built into the Linux kernel soon.
* Intelligent agents. With innovations like Clippy [slashdot.org], the talking paperclip and Microsoft Bob [windowsbeta.net], Microsoft has always tried to make life easier
for its customers. With Outlook and Outlook Express [ximian.com], Microsoft has built a framework for developers to create even smarter agents. Especially popular agents include "Sircam", which automatically asks the users' friends for advice
on files he is working on and the "Hybris" agent, which is a self-replicating
copy of a humorous take on "Snow-White and the Seven Dwarves" (the real story!). [compedit.com]
Microsoft is working on expanding this P2P technology to its web servers [netscape.com]. This
project is still in the beta stage, thus the name "Code Red". The next versions
will be called "Code Yellow" and "Code Green".
* Version numbers. Linux has real naming problems. What's the difference
between a 2.4.19 and a 2.2.17 kernel anyway? And what's with those odd and even
numbers? Microsoft has always had clear and sophisticated naming/versioning
policies. For example, Windows 95 [kde.org] was named Windows 95 because it was released
in 1995. Windows 98 [kde.org] was released three years later, and so on. Windows XP [apple.com]
brought a whole new "experience" to the user, therefore the name. I suggest that
the next Linux kernel releases be called Linux 03, Linux 04, Linux 04.5 (OSR1),
Linux 04.7B (OSR2 SP4 OEM), Linux 2005 and Linux VD (Valentine's Day edition).
Furthermore, remember how Microsoft named every upcoming version of Windows
after some Egyptian city? Cairo, Chicago and so on. I think that the development
kernels should be named after Spanish cities to celebrate Linux' Spanish
origins. Linux Milano [alyssa.com] or Linux Rome [nero.com] anyone?
* Multi-User Support. This has always been one of Microsoft's strong sides,
especially in the Windows 95/98 [kde.org] variants, where passwords were completely
unnecessary. Microsoft has made the right decision by not bothering the user
with a distinction between "normal" and "root" users too much -- practice has
shown that average users can be trusted to act responsibly and in full awareness
of the potential consequences of their actions. After all, if your operating
system doesn't trust you, why should you trust it? (To be fair, Linux is making
some progress here with the Lindows distribution, where users are always running as root.)
With Windows XP, Microsoft has again improved multi-user support. Not only
does Windows XP come with a larg
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