Linux Kernel 2.6.34 update!

[karamazovmm]

yupiiii it updates!!! yupiii!!!

Now it will just take the next 2 releases to catch up or am I wrong?''


http://arstechnica.com/open-source/n...m_campaign=rss

[GasMask]

Theirs an update ?

(O_o) When was it released ?

[Simetrical]

This really isn't something that even the average Linux user has reason to care about. Typically you get your kernel from a distribution, which won't include the new kernel until its next release. Also, kernel features are pretty hard for the average user to see. You can find a summary at Kernel Newbies, but I expect you'll find it mostly incomprehensible, unless you follow Linux kernel development on at least the level of reading Slashdot or LWN. Kernel releases are also somewhat unexciting because they happen on a regular schedule, every three months or so, and everyone basically knows what will be in the final release by the time the merge window closes, which is more than two months before the release.

Personally, though, I'm most interested in the btrfs improvements. I'm really waiting for btrfs to become the standard Linux filesystem. It might happen for Ubuntu 10.10, although most likely not.

[Bartzy]

This really isn't something that even the average Linux user has reason to care about.....

As an average user, I find these updates and knowledge useful. Normally distros modify kernels in their development, which can cause problems. For instance, Fedora, Alsa Drivers stop working in Fedora 12.

So I installed latest stable vanilla version, and bang pow Sound pumping through. Yay

Vanilla Kernel Sexual Healing...

[Simetrical]

I don't think Linux users who compile their own kernels count as average these days. A few years ago, sure, but I think not now. I do wish distros added less garbage to all their major packages, but oh well. AppArmor is nice. I was able to actually debug a problem that I ran into with it by myself without knowing anything about it in advance, which I've heard is more or less impossible for SELinux.