http://www.osnews.com/story/16594/Linux_2_6_19_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 03:36:21 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?186496 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186496 The last link doesn't points correctly to http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diegocg) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186497 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186497 That Ecryptfs support sounds very good indeed. I sure welcome it with open arms. Kudos for mr Torvalds and his team. Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (GreatBunzinni) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186510 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186510 Hooray!

Too busy recompiling to say much more! Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (situation) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186538 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186538 It seems like there's a lot to make this a pretty nice release. I'd be interested in some benchmarks vs. 2.6.18/17. Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MighMoS) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186540 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186540 Already done...


http://test.kernel.org/perf/index.html Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diegocg) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186555 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186555 Wow, -mm sources on amd64 is... well, very variable. Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DigitalAxis) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186593 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186593 Thank you kernel hackers, for the early Christmas present! Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kev009) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186621 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186621 The kernel hackers has done a great job.
Since Linus brought in git, it has been easy managing and taking care of the code!

Looking forward to the next release! Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dikatlon) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186622 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186622 Linus' announcement on the LKML made me laugh really hard. Geeky humor, gotta love it.

Something I noticed skimming through the changelog (available here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19): bcm43xx now supports 64bit and systems with >1GB of RAM. Sweet!Edited 2006-11-30 08:38 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jack Malmostoso) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186678 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186678 Congratulations to the Kernel team! You've done a great job! Please continue good working =) Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SK8T) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186698 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186698 Yahoo RX/TX polling for forcedeth,tnx. Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186726 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186726 So Reiser4 does not make it in because it still needs further development... but Ext4 does because, they say, it is, "for developers"?

Smacks like a case of NIH syndrome to me. All these objections to the inclusion of Reiser4, yet when they create their own it goes straight in even though it is not yet stable. Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (charlieg) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186741 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186741 You should have read the article instead.

http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

"Like OCFS2 and like any other filesystem that wants to be merged in the linux kernel, GFS2 developers asked for submission long time ago. They were asked to fix things (even considering that GFS2 had already been developed at Sistina and it was already a stable final product), they submitted it again, they were asked to fix more things, and so on, for a long period of time. Their developers have fixed every thing they were asked to fix. Because of their hard work, GFS2 is now ready to be merged, nobody opposes to it, and everyone is happy. (Amazing, isn't it? In fact, 3 new filesystems are being merged in 2.6.19 and nobody is flaming nobody, quite the contrary)" Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186743 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186743 I don't think it is NIH syndrome. I believe that there were technical reasons, that required some give on what "became" a two sided issue.

I'm sure Reisers persuasive abilities let him down, simply because he had to ask people to compromise. Now thats a little tricky anyway, but you can't bully people into maintaining your code.

What I am surprised by, it that since Reiser is erm...occupied. That nobody from is company has stepped up to push the Filesystem for kernel inclusion for there own reasons. Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cyclops) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?186978 http://www.osnews.com/thread?186978 This release also has many updates for AHCI. I haven't checked had a chance to sort through the release notes with a fine tooth comb yet but as far as I know 2.6.19 is supposed to have NCQ support for AHCI based systems. Does anyone know if NCQ is now supported? Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (abraxas) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?187130 http://www.osnews.com/thread?187130 ... At last.
I've been getting lousy RX performance on both PCNET32 and forcedeth.
Two presents in one package... Hooray!

- Gilboa Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments