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Posted by michael on Friday December 17, 2004 @01:53PM from the rated-p-for-progress dept.

Paul Kucher writes "On December 17th, 2003, Linux 2.6 was released by Linus Torvalds, saying 'The beaver is out of detox.' This was a reference to the last pre-release of the 2.6 kernel, which was called Beaver in Detox. Although a stable release, the 2.6 kernel has added many new features in the past year due to the new development model. It will be interesting to see what else is in store for this kernel, and I imagine it will be years before it is in maintenance mode."

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Well I'll be the first to say it.... (Score:2)

by Holi ( 250190 ) writes:

Happy Birthday
Also... (Score:3, Interesting)

by Plake ( 568139 ) writes: <rlclark@gmail.com> on Friday December 17, 2004 @02:00PM (#11117658) Homepage

RoTK also was released in theaters on the same day. It was a great day all round.

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- Re:Still on 2.4 here (Score:1, Flamebait)
  
  by advocate_one ( 662832 ) writes:
  
  My USB doesn't work in 2.6, which is a shame as not only would I like to update my desktop system but it also means that I can't use any live CDs (like the Ubuntu ones I sent for) since my keyboard and mouse are USB, and so is my printer. :-(
  
  oh, piss off.... you must have the weirdest usb going for it not to work with any of the current live CDs that have 2.6 kernels... it's one of the things they really make sure works.
- Re:Still on 2.4 here (Score:4, Interesting)
  
  by n1ywb ( 555767 ) writes: on Friday December 17, 2004 @02:21PM (#11117952) Homepage Journal
  
  You may have an oddball USB controller that isn't enabled by default in most kernels, even though it probably IS supported by 2.6. Do you have "assign IRQ to usb" or "usb dos mode" or whateever turned on in your BIOS?
  
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- Re:Still on 2.4 here (Score:2)
  
  by dozer ( 30790 ) writes:
  
  Unless you say what hardware you have, your complaint nothing more than a meaningless troll. You realize, of course, that complaining on Slashdot is not quite as effective as asking on linux-usb or filing a bug in the kernel bugzilla?
- Re:Still on 2.4 here (Score:4, Informative)
  
  by wolf31o2 ( 778801 ) writes: on Friday December 17, 2004 @03:28PM (#11118822)
  
  Try a Gentoo 2004.3-r1 LiveCD. We have had exactly ZERO bug reports of people's USB not working with our CD, and we don't have any special USB patches added from vanilla 2.6.9, so it should work perfectly for you.
  
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- Re:uptime... (Score:2)
  
  by hawkbug ( 94280 ) writes:
  
  That's awesome - hopefully that thing is behind a firewall or two, because hasn't there been several exploits since then?
- Re:uptime... (Score:2)
  
  by bersl2 ( 689221 ) writes:
  
  Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1200MHz
  
  So you've had a laptop up for one year? Or is uname -a just screwed up?
- bullshit! (Score:2, Informative)
  
  by b374 ( 799492 ) writes:
  
  Linux mu 2.6.0-gentoo-r1 #2 SMP Sat Jul 17 14:53:56 CDT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1200MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
  
  12:16:12 up 365 days, 6 users, load average: 2.07, 2.17, 2.03
  
  That's bullshit since the output shows that your kernel was compiled in July 2004, not in December last year.
Burning, burning, burning... (Score:1)

by PhotoJim ( 813785 ) writes:

/me buys a lovely gift for the kernel that finally let him burn on IDE burners. That ide-scsi trick on 2.4 and earlier confounded (and continues to confound) me...
- Re:Burning, burning, burning... (Score:1)
  
  by gorre ( 519164 ) writes:
  
  You can burn on IDE burners without the "ide-scsi trick" on 2.4 too, you just need a new enough version of cdrecord.
  - Re:Burning, burning, burning... (Score:1)
    
    by PhotoJim ( 813785 ) writes:
    
    Maybe Debian doesn't have a new enough version (although I'm running Sarge), but I haven't been able to get it to work yet...
    - Re:Burning, burning, burning... (Score:2)
      
      by chgros ( 690878 ) writes:
      
      Maybe Debian doesn't have a new enough version (although I'm running Sarge), but I haven't been able to get it to work yet...
      I haven't been able to get it to work on 2.6...
Great, wonderful, blah, blah, blah... (Score:1)

by jo42 ( 227475 ) writes:

Great, wonderful, blah, blah, blah...
Now let's get a kernel fix for recent 2.6.9 series kernels that allows you to boot off of SATA drives hanging off of a NFORCE2 or NFORCE3 chipset's SATA ports. Nothing more annoying than having to take out your 10K RPM Raptor for a 7.2K RPM IDE plow horse...
in china... (Score:2)

by radon28 ( 593565 ) writes:

..birthdays are always positive!
ATARAID (Score:2)

by satanami69 ( 209636 ) writes:

I have el cheapo Promise Fasttrak 133 (PDC20276) with two other el cheapo 30GB harddrives in a raid. It works fine with 2.4, but I still see no way of upgrading to 2.6. Will there eventually be an ATARAID workaround, or do I need to change my system setup to get on 2.6
Happy birthday, 2.6 (Score:2, Insightful)

by GreatBunzinni ( 642500 ) writes:

Now I hope that the linux kernel people learned their lesson and that the project's next stable release is really stable, which wasn't by far the 2.6 case.

Don't get me wrong. I love linux and I'm very gratefull for the work that group of people invests into the project. Still, 2.6 wasn't by far near the stable status it got and that misslabelling can be very counterproductive. After all, the common idea is that linux is difficult, not ready for serious work and incredibly buggy and a buggy release just hel

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