Kernel 2.6.34-final is here!
After a couple of days of waiting for BFS scheduler patch and rebuilding the patch for ureadahead, kernel 2.6.34-final is here. I know, again, it’s with a certain delay, but some parts are not in my control and it’s not much that I can do about it.
As usual, the same stuff are included in this release like I always do, but now, in this release, I have also added support for a ton of new modules, removed unionfs (sorry, but it’s not much in use) and probably in the future releases I will include also aufs support. Because the list of bug fixes in this kernel is really really long, I wont includ it, like I did in my previouse release, but I can tell you that there was an extensive amount of work done for Intel video drivers, Radeon video drivers and Nouveau video drivers (but only experimental, so good luck with them). There are also a lot of other fixes and add-ons, but like I said, I wont mention them, as they are too many.
P.S.: To rectify a mistake that I did in one of my comments, now I’ve added the rtl8187se module, which it wasn’t included in the previous releases.
To download this kernel please use one of our mirrors:
Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.34-final/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.34-final/
The basic installation is simple and you will need root access or sudo access, plus dpkg. Here is how (use –force-all to make sure it will install it, it can happen that on older system will run into an error, for example on Ubuntu 8.04, but with –force-all it will be installed and it will work):
sudo dpkg -i –force-all linux-image-2.6.34-final_2.6.34-1_i386.deb
For those of you who want or need to rebuild the kernel, you can download the source code with the config file from the links above, as I wrote before there wont be anymore included kernel source archive, but you will have a package call linux-source-2.6.34-final_2.6.33.3-1_i386.deb which contains the kernel source code.
May the force be with you, Luke ![]()
Hi! Could you tell me what’s the different between your kernel and the official kernel? Is your kernel somehow optimized for netbook laptops or especially for Aspire One? I tried find the information from your website but I didn’t find
Well yes, it is more optimized to run a bit faster and even more stable. It is build with the idea to run properly on the desktop(s), laptop(s) and even netbook(s). I’ve removed a lot of debug features, removed what was or is not really necessary for the daily usage. It suppose to be faster and have much more drivers to support a wide variety of hardware.
Okey, so it’s not specially optimized for intel atom processors? Anyway thanks for the kernel!
No, not fully. It should run quite well on netbooks, because that’s how it all start it, me publishing this kernel package (due to an Acer Aspire One), but it will run on most computer, desktop oriented of course.
You can always download the kernel source and rebuild it for a netbook, should be quite easy.