Re: [Sheflug] 2.6 Kernel

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Would anyone like to make some extensive or simple comments about the
> 2.6 kernel available at www.kernel.org.
> 
> I think it's the ac3 version that I'm talking about.  Was wondering if
> anyone was trying it out just now.
> 

I'm hanging back 'til 2.6.1, 2 or 3 - hopefully there won't be the palava
like the release of 2.4 [1], but when 2.6.0 goes live it'll suddenly get
a much larger userbase of testers :)

As it is though, I've heard that SMP performance is /vastly/ improved (which
is good news for me :) ), plus the Tcl/Tk config tool (make xconfig) is no
more, having been replaced by a Qt version instead[2]. The rest of the
build chain though is, to the most part identical.

The bit that's different is there is no longer any need to type "make dep".

ALSA's also now the main sound system; I'm using ALSA patched on my 2.4
system and it's quite nice. I've only scratched the surface though as it's
infinately more flexible than OSS, and I'm just using it like OSS.

I've pulled -test5 down to look at, but as I need to update a number of
tools and libraries, it's not going to go on just yet.


Chris...

[1] where the flames died down at about 2.4.15 I think, after ripping out
	the memory management and replacing it with a completely different
	code base at about 2.4.9, causing many smoke alarms to go off on
	linux-kernel.
[2] For the GPL purists, there is a GTK config tool, but according to bits
	on kerneltrap.org, it's still buggy and not as polished, so may 
	produce duff configs.

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