I scanned the forums, so forgive me if it's already been posted:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern....6.0-test1.bz2

www.kernel.org



WOohoo!!!!

Cool

I can't wait to try it on my newer system, but does anyone know if it'll improve performance on older systems or slow it down? Or neither?

This is about as stable as the 2.5 kernel, right?

pilot1, the odd numbers are unstable/testing kernels, while the even's are stable.

Since this is the first 2.6 release, it is basically as stable as 2.5.x

Any new options will be introduced in 2.7.x; 2.6 will only be updated to fix bugs.

btw, does anyone know which gcc version is best for 2.5 / 2.6?

2.95.3

Just downloaded it, now I need to figure out the proper commands for compiling and installing.

The Guide in the Slackware Forum should work fine for the 2.6 kernel. Just follow that.

Im gonna wait on it, since I dont want to have use a flaky patch to get the Nvidia drivers working. But 2.6 is tempting.

I'm not sure if I follow you contrasutra. Is there an issue with the nvidia drivers?

Doh!! I just finished compiling a really cool 2.4.21 kernel. Now I have to go and recompile again!!! Wait a sec. I wonder if USB,ACPI,PCMCIA,ATI, etc etc.. support has been improved. I am going to HAVE to try it out for size....

Does anyone else have problems with getting the kernel to boot? I compiled it once successfully today, but now after about a million re-compiles (needed to fix something in the config), I can no longer get a working 2.6 kernel. It keeps getting stuck at "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel", it never gets anywhere else.

I currently have 2.6-test1 running with all of my hardware.


00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS651 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 04)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7002 USB 2.0
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)

Nvidia works w/patch (http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html), SiS 7012 Sound works(Alsa), etc.
I have even compile X 4.3.99.8 all using "gcc 3.3.1"

Walt

After selecting Linux-2.6.0 at the Lilo prompt, I just get a black screen. Nothing after.

To be able to install the official Nvidia Kernel Module (to get 3D) in the new kernel, you need to patch the driver. And the guy giving out the patch is some guy ive never heard of, so im not eager to find out if he knows what he's doing.

Hopefully Nvidia will come out with an updated driver soon.

From the Kernel Summary I like the sound of this.. Especially for large databases on Intel 32-bit systems:


Size Matters -- Scalability Improvements

In addition to NUMA support, Linux 2.6 also has other changes for Intel servers at the top of the food chain. First and foremost is full support for Intel's PAE ("Physical Address Extension") which allows most newer 32-bit x86 systems to access up to 64GB of RAM, but in a paged mode. Additionally, through improved APIC support and other changes, IRQ balancing has been significantly improved on multiprocessor systems.

In many other respects, internal limits have been increased when possible. The number of unique users and groups on a Linux system has been bumped from 65,000 to over 4 billion. (16-bit to 32-bit). This will make Linux more practical on large file and authentication servers where it might be possible to hit the previous limit. Similarly, The number of PIDs (Process IDs) before wraparound has been bumped up from 32,000 to 1 billion. This change, combined with other efficiencies in the PID subsystem, will help to improve application starting performance on very busy or very long-lived systems. Although the maximum number of open files has not been increased, Linux with the 2.6 kernel will no longer require you to set what the limit is in advance; this number will self-scale. And finally, Linux 2.6 will include improved 64-bit support on block devices that support it, even on 32-bit platforms such as i386. This allows for filesystems up to 2TB.