Just downloaded. As was pointed out on Slashdot, 2.6 kernel and Lord of
the Rings on the same day (yes, its good and you should see it). And for
us, the end of the semester. What could make the day better. Guess it
would have to be World Peace or something.
I've been using 2.6-test11 primarily for the last couple of weeks. For
the desktop user I think the most noticeable change are the new sound
drivers, ALSA. The old OSS still exists, as well as an OSS compatibility
layer for ALSA. My experience with ALSA is that it gives me a little too
much power. In my experience with my Sound Blaster Live! emu10k1 card,
by default, no sound was coming out. I opened up alsamixer and fixed
that. But it sounded kind of flat and voices were quiet in comparison to
other sounds. I fiddled around with the literally dozens of options now
in alsamixer and now it works fine. I hope now with ALSA in widespread
use there will be some develop of a just-make-it-sound-good auto config
thing. The commercial distros will probably write scripts to setup it up
right.
Though I haven't done blind test trials, I think ALSA sounds better.
More full. But its hard to say.
I'm currently having trouble with test11 and CDs. For some reason, I
have to load the ide-scsi module for the DVD and CD-R to work at all
even though I specifically configured the kernel with not having to do
that in mind (the ide-scsi module being in bad-taste according to Linus.)
Untarring...
Ian
Benjamin Story wrote:
Linus released the first official 2.6.0 kernel today. Go to the usual
places and download your copy today.
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