OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21644/Linux_Kernel_2_6_30_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:24:48 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com They sure did miss something... http://osnews.com/thread?367705 http://osnews.com/thread?367705 proofreading the announcement, for one ;) Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morph) Comments RE: They sure did miss something... http://osnews.com/thread?367706 http://osnews.com/thread?367706 It is a kernel regression. The kernel isn't fast enough to keep up with Linus' typing speed. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kragil) Comments kernel regression http://osnews.com/thread?367710 http://osnews.com/thread?367710 What does kernel regression mean? Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Andre4s) Comments RE: kernel regression http://osnews.com/thread?367711 http://osnews.com/thread?367711 It means that a feature that worked in the last release will exhibit buggy or completely broken behaviour now. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WereCatf) Comments Intel GEM http://osnews.com/thread?367713 http://osnews.com/thread?367713 I really hope that Intel's GEM is stable and giving out good performance. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Isolationist) Comments RE: kernel regression http://osnews.com/thread?367716 http://osnews.com/thread?367716
What does kernel regression mean?

its a nice way to say "bug"


(yes yes, its a specific kind of bug: feature that worked before stopped working, effectively "regressing") Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (_xmv) Comments RE[2]: kernel regression http://osnews.com/thread?367723 http://osnews.com/thread?367723 "bug" is too ambigious, regression is when functionality gets worse.

I belive in this case the topic is performance regression, which means that while new features was added or other modules/features got optimised one or more existing features got slower , eg uses more cpu cycles to achieve the same work.

Common regressions happens while eg. choosing to optimise towards either latency or throughput, you rarely get to satisfy all users in such a case, which could explain why just about every important module is hot-plugable in the Linux kernel (eg. schedulers optimized for servers vs desktops). Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (meeh) Comments RE: Intel GEM http://osnews.com/thread?367724 http://osnews.com/thread?367724 It is, at least on 3 of my machines ;) Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (big_gie) Comments Personally.. http://osnews.com/thread?367741 http://osnews.com/thread?367741 I would like to see more things pushed to the user-space (ala uKernel). Anyway I believe they did their best again with this release. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments RE[2]: Intel GEM http://osnews.com/thread?367758 http://osnews.com/thread?367758
It is, at least on 3 of my machines ;)


With version 2.6.30? Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Isolationist) Comments RE[3]: Intel GEM http://osnews.com/thread?367759 http://osnews.com/thread?367759 Not even... I'm using .29.4, xf86-video-intel 2.7.1, xorg-server 1.6.1.901 and KMS+UXA+DRI2 on my netbook (eeepc 1000), a Dell Workstation and a Dell latitude D830 without issues.

This is since a month or two. Before that I often had crashes and freeze. I don't see those now, I'm happy ;) Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (big_gie) Comments Latest stable version http://osnews.com/thread?367760 http://osnews.com/thread?367760 Has 2.6.30 been released or are they preparing to release it ... reason I ask is that at the time of writing, on kernel.org it shows the latest stable version of the Linux kernel as 2.6.29.4.

Update: looks like the website is lagging behind.Edited 2009-06-10 19:24 UTC Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Isolationist) Comments RE: Personally.. http://osnews.com/thread?367766 http://osnews.com/thread?367766 Well, you're in luck. You can personally change it. As linus likes to say, His tree of the kernel is his tree. If you disagree, create your own tree. All the major distros have their own trees that vary from Linus' tree.

I know that would be a time consuming proposition for little real gain, but sometimes I think we have it too good in our vast world of open source software.

Feel free to express your desires, we need to hear all voices so that the majority of them can be served by the default behavior. Your particular request, most likely wouldn't be best for most users so its unlikely to be adopted in a major tree.

Edit: my grammar filter is broken again. Sorry.Edited 2009-06-10 19:51 UTC Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bill Shooter of Bul) Comments multitouch http://osnews.com/thread?367885 http://osnews.com/thread?367885 Hi,
Why they don't mention the new multitouch support ?
http://www.lii-enac.fr/en/projects/shareit/linux.html Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (boulabiar) Comments Comment by diego http://osnews.com/thread?367950 http://osnews.com/thread?367950 Great release, the NILFS2 file system looks really great and interesting, I can't wait for Btrfs to be stable though ;) . Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diego) Comments RE[3]: Intel GEM http://osnews.com/thread?368498 http://osnews.com/thread?368498 It is not stable on my machine (toshiba U200 Intel GM945) ;)

It is stable without KMS though. Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Damnshock) Comments