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 :)