On Monday July 21 2003 11:36 am, Frankie wrote: > Hi guys, > > I was just reading up on the 2.6 kernel at: > > http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html
and http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10587 "Linux appears to be on track with massive revisions and significant advances to be delivered to all of us within about another six months or so, when it's ready." I suspect that'll 1stQ, next year > And one of the new changes is that in order to use cdrw's > you will no longer have to use scsi emulation.. > > IDE CD/RW drives can now be written to directly through the > real IDE disk driver, a much cleaner implementation than > before. (Previously, it was required to also use a special > SCSI-emulating driver which was confusing and often > difficult.) > > That's gonna make newbie usage much simplier. > > There is a ton of other cool changes too, you guys should > read up on this and see what is comming. Subscribe to LKML, filter '[PATCH]' posts to trash and read the rest by titles by interest. Makes it manageable. Or just check the archive every once in awhile at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&r=1&w=2 In any event, 2.6 is about six months or more away. Longer than that as the default kernel in a major distro. It'll then just be a .0 kernel, probly not quite mature. Still, I'd advise the adventurous to test it in the meantime. It will require other updates, gcc (downgraded compiler options), modutils, initrd .... and backward compatibility to 2.4 kernels will be touch an go for a while. 2.6 looks to be a /contrib option in 9.2 ... a test kernel. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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