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Kernel 2.6.35-final already here! WoW :)
I don’t usually get very surprised when a new kernel is released, but this time… I’m. Kernel 2.6.34.1 was release just a couple of good weeks ago and then kernel 2.6.35. I don’t get the idea why did they just jumped directly to kernel 2.6.35, but I will consider that they know what they are doing and I will just go with the flow 
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Besides the surprise that this kernel was release, I also have a surprise (more like a bad news) for those of you who are using the kernel builds done by me. Since this kernel release I have dropped support for Ubuntu 8.x, meaning that you need at least Ubuntu 9.10 or similar when it comes to Debian to be able to install it. You wont be able to use it on older versions due to libc incompatibility.
OK now, lets leave the big surprises of the day and just go on with what is included in this new kernel. Besides a ton of fixes, new modules and improvements done by the kernel development team, I have also added to this kernel, lzma support for squash4, ureadahead support, aufs2 support and custom kernel configuration. It means some stuff in the kernel build where changed to offer a better speed for deskptops/laptops/netbooks.
Because the ChangeLog of this kernel is huge, I wont put it here at this point, but if you are interested to know what changes kernel 2.6.35 brings, please check out the ChangeLog from kernel.org: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.
Well thats about it form my side, now the download part, which seems the most important .
You can download this custom kernel packages from one of the mirrors:
Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.35-final/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.35-final/
The basic installation is simple and you will need root access or sudo access, plus dpkg. Here is how:
sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.35-final_2.6.35-1_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 called linux-source-2.6.35-final_2.6.35-1_i386.deb which contains the kernel source code with the patches.
Cheers! and keep the faith alive… faith in what I don’t know, but keep it anyway!
Hi Robert.
I’ve been building my own 64bit kernels for a while now but I’ve never really invested in grabbing ubuntu-specific patches.
Your patches and config sound great. Could you make them available separately so 64bit users can still get the benefit of your work?
The idea was given some time ago by some other reader. I’m not say, it could be a good idea, but to be honest, I don’t have that my time on my hands, neither the machines for it. I will see in the future, there is always the possibility.
I don’t mean make more builds (it was me that suggested that btw), I just mean share your .config, patchsets and a full build log would be super-handy too so we could copy everything… Just relative to our own architectures.
Ahh, I understand now… I will try, maybe post them separately.
Anyway you prepare one for 64bit architecture ?
Perhaps , attaching your configure/.config or all other extra stuff ?
Thanks !
They are attached for http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/09/01/kernel-2-6-35-4-bubbleboy-released-for-debianubuntu-bubbleboy/. There are the paches and config. Check it out.