Linux 2.6.36 Released

diegocg writes "Version 2.6.36 of the Linux kernel has been released. This version includes support for the Tilera architecture, a new filesystem notification interface called fanotify, CIFS local caching, support for Intel Intelligent Power Sharing in i3/5 systems, integration of the kernel debugger and KMS, inclusion of the AppArmor security system, a redesign of workqueues optimized for concurrency, and several new drivers and small improvements. See the full changelog here for more details."

Fanotify disabled in this version

[Anonymous Coward]

Because of desagreement in the ABI the fanotify is disabled in this kernel.

Did you even read Linus' release notice?

[Anonymous Coward]

fanotify syscalls are disabled because people still can't agree on the API.

Mirror here:

[D4rk Fx]

Mirror Here [mtu.edu]

Re:And yet?

[Desler]

The problem that prevents flash from playing fullscreen is that it's closed source crap

So that's why Gnash plays videos so much better? Oh wait, it's actually worse.

not that Linux is in any way incomplete.

No, the problem isn't incompleteness it's the fact that one has to traverse a jungle of incompatible audio and video APIs to make sure it even works at all across the various distributions.

Re:But ...

[Randwulf]

Ubuntu, a distribution that uses (some version) of the Linux kernel, is up to 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). The latest version of the Linux kernel to be released is 2.6.36.

Re:news for gnurds?

[maxume]

Click the prefs button on the bottom left of the comments page. Unclick the 'Dynamic Discussions' and then click save.

That seems to be the only way to access that pref, and it is sort of fun that they went ahead and created a new pref, rather than continuing to respect the 'Enable classic comments' pref.

Re:And yet?

[0123456]

But can it play fullscreen flash video smoothly yet?

Yes.

Well, Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop certainly doesn't seem to have any problem playing full screen Flash video. However, flash does hog the audio so I have to kill the damn thing if I want to play sound from anything else.

If there's one valid complaint in your post it's the crappy state of audio on Linux.

Re:Compressed RAM?

[zach_the_lizard]

I've run it under Lucid and Maverick, it seemed to fix a wireless connection loss issue I was having with the ath9k driver, though it could also be due to upgrading to Maverick. There are various DRM improvements, IIRC, that might help performance a bit.

Re:And yet?

[abigor]

Actually, all the relevant particulars of Flash are openly available (see Adobe's Open Screen project). The big exception is Sorenson Spark, but that's already available via ffmpeg. Basically, Gnash just isn't there yet.

2.6.36 compiles with intel c

[Anonymous Coward]

damn, just compiled 2.6.36RC8 to fix suspend issues on thinkpad x200.
ps it compiled out of box (no patches) with icc and intel libraries!

Re:But ...

[CannonballHead]

most likely: woosh :)

Re:And yet?

[fishbowl]

>Basically, Gnash just isn't there yet.

Some real progress was made in the early development of Gnash. There were people underwriting the project who were willing and able to pay a living wage to developers who could finish it, but that talent didn't really come forward. Those people have pretty much moved on to other projects. (You know who you are, and I know way more about this than I'm going to say in a slashdot post.) I was plugged into the Gnash project for a while, and I thought it was really interesting. But even a commercial venture will fail if it can't acquire talent.

Re:Whether a file has changed = complex?

[abigor]

Er, "for example...for example". Great proofreading there. And I meant ANTI-malware vendors, of course...

Re:news for gnurds?

[arielCo]

It's all Text! [mozilla.org]
Edit textareas using an external editor, because it's all text! Right click on a textarea, select "It's All Text!" and edit the text in the editor of your choice. Alternatively, click on the edit buttons added for your convenience.

Texto [mozilla.org]
Open textareas in an external application

Textarea viEditor [mozilla.org]
Enable to edit the textarea/input element by like vim operation

I tried the first two and kept "It's all Text". Although you can conceivably use Stylish to mod the textarea to your liking.

Re:Great...

[mcgrew]

"Microsoft announces Windows SteadyState will no longer be available after December 31, 2010. Microsoft will continue to let users to download the software through December 31, 2010. Support for Windows SteadyState will continue to be available through the Microsoft Knowledge Base portal through June 30, 2011."

From the article you linked, it looks like it's part of MS's network software, not Windows. AND they're killing it in two months.