[newbie] interesting facts about kernel2.6
Hi guys, I was just reading up on the 2.6 kernel at: http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html 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. regards Franki http://htmlfixit.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] interesting facts about kernel2.6
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-kernelr=1w=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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] interesting facts about kernel2.6
Some cool things summarised from the below url for people that might not want to wade though it.. (I only picked the onces cool to me.) http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html - Ability to natively mount cifs filesystems (smb extended for 2000, XP+ systems) - No more scsi emulation for CDRW stuff. - Ability to run a virtual linux inside linux for testing.. linux on linux. - Much beter hardware support. - Much much better sound support. - Bluetooth. - much more reliable NFS (ver4). - full software-suspend-to-disk functionality for the Linux user on the go. - Hyperthreading (for the latest P4's). - improved support: webcams, radio and TV adapters, and digital video recorders. - built-in support for Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) hardware. (tivo like functionality) - Support for systems with multiple AGP cards. - 2.6 now supports Windows' Logical Disk Manager (aka Dynamic Disks) - mount a NTFS volume read/write. (write still experimental, but much better.) Thats all the stuff you may not have heard.. its also apparently faster and more responsive. I can't wait.. Having said all that, from reading this article. I have trouble with the idea that 2.6 would work on a 9.0 or 9.1 system.. there are some fundamental changes in the underlying structure of 2.6 that would require some changes to a 9.1 system before it would work properly. Anyway, I got all excited about this and had to share,, I am seeing someone about this problem and I hope to be able to restrain myself in future. :-) regards Franki http://htmlfixit.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
