Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 28th Oct 2005 10:14 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Linus has released kernel 2.6.14 after two months of development. There's a big amount of changes: new features like HostAP, FUSE, the linux port of the plan9's 9P protocol, netlink connector, relayfs, securityfs, centrino's wireless drivers, support for DCCP (currently a RFC draft, PPTP, full 4 page-table support for ppc64, numa-aware slab allocator, lock-free descriptor lookup and many other things. Read the comprehensible changelog or the full changelog.
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Member since:2005-07-04
That's not a problem. It is a compile time option. In make menuconfig, you select the memory limit (1 GB, 4 GB, 64 GB....patched kernels go higher I believe). Ubuntu ships in its repos a 386 kernel (limit of 768 MB of RAM for some odd reason) and a 686 kernel (limit of 4 GB if I'm not mistaken).
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2005-07-06
...forgive me, if this is common knowledge, but has the "Hi-memory" problem been fixed in the Linux kernel? I heard somewhere that you had to recompile the kernel if you had > 1GB of RAM to support that much memory...but I'm not sure if this is true.