kernel 2

Linux Magazine: ""The changes in -rc1 are (as usual) too many to really enumerate, with the bulk of them being - again as usual - drivers," writes Torvalds in the gmane.linux.kernel newsgroup...

Nearly half the merged drivers are in the staging tree that Greg Kroah-Hartman created back in June 2008."

Linux Magazine: "In the second keynote of the Linux-Kongress in Hamburg, Germany, cofounder of LWN.net and kernel developer Jonathan Corbet presented details on yesterday's released Kernel 2.6.27, but also described some of the work Linux Torvalds and his group of hackers have been up to."

Linux Format: "Crank up your compiler -- kernel 2.6.27 has arrived, including (deep breath): a new filesystem (UBIFS) optimized for "pure" flash-based storage devices;"

SUSE & openSUSE: "With Kernel 2.6 (default in recent releases of openSUSE & SuSE Linux), there are some fine tuning you can do to improve Network performance and get that extra out of your system."

IBM Developerworks: "Linux® kernel 2.6.25 introduced a new process state for putting processes to sleep called TASK_KILLABLE, which offers an alternative to the efficient but potentially unkillable TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and the easy-to-awaken but safer TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE.

TASK_KILLABLE is the outcome of an issue raised in 2002..."

Mandriva Blog: "A major bug was recently discovered in the upstream Linux kernel (see also Mandriva bug #44147)."

Linux.com: "Finnix is a live CD distribution designed to assist system administrators in such tasks as system recovery and network monitoring.

Based on Debian testing and Linux kernel 2.6, Finnix helps with filesystem and partition manipulation as well as with data recovery, installation of other operating systems, and boot record repair."

LinuxWorld: "Here's one from the file of random stuff you see when you put a new machine on the upstream kernel instead of the distro kernel.

USB drivers for Linux will be GPL-only with the release of the upcoming kernel 2.6.25..."

Ubuntu server version 8.04 (which is currently available in alpha 4, released on February 2 as Hardy Heron) will feautre the 2.6.24 Linux kernel.

This will be the first of the major enterprise Linux distributions to be released with the new kernel. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is at 2.6.18 with RHEL version 5.1.