Twitter doesn’t allow anymore the basic authentication so this had to be modified also in TweeU. So for all of you who use TweeU, I suggest to update the plugin or if you wanna start using it, you can find TweeU at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweeu/ or http://www.robertalks.com/tweeu/.

The installation or update is relatively simple and guided by WordPress, so there shouldn’t be any problems with it. One thing you may have problems with is when you allowed the plugin in Twitter and you are redirected to the WordPress plugin page it may give you an error as it failed to authenticate. At this point you will only need to refresh/reload the plugin page and everything will work fine. I’m still not sure why is this happening, but as soon as I find the issue/problem, I will fix it.

So, have fun with it, get on blogging and twitting

This new build brings a tone of fixes and new features and also some additional patches added by me. As all of you are familiar, you will find in the kernel build, squashfs4 with lzma support, aufs2 and now, for the first time, support for reiser4.

I wont go into more details, because they are way too many, but if interested you can always check out the kernel ChangeLog from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.4.

Now for the download part, for the kernel packages, follow the below links:

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.35.4-bubbleboy/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.35.4-bubbleboy/

For the patches, follow the below links:

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/patches/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/patches/

For the kernel config file, follow the below links:

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/config/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/config/

That’s about it from me for today, not really in the mood of writing nice little stories. Anyway, if you need some help or support, you can always drop me a comment, I will check them and respond as soon as possible.

Cheers, people!

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!

This kernel really stayed in the cooker for some time, as version 2.6.34 was release two months ago. I will take this long period, their idea to make sure that everything works and most bugs and issues are fixed, otherwise I can’t explain the two months delay between releases.

Now to go strait to this release, which is called Blackjack (has nothing to do with the card games ), I will just tell you that this kernel has been build a bit differently, doesn’t have BFS anymore, has enabled Dynamic Ticks, patched the kernel with aufs and lzma support for squashfs4 and left out unionfs. The idea with this kernel is that in case you wanna build your own Live CD, based on the installation on your computer, you can do it really easily as aufs and squashfs4 are there and working right. BFS (brain fuck scheduler) was removed as it wasn’t really giving the kernel anything in plus, actually in some cases it even slowed down the overall system and Dynamic Ticks where enabled, because in some cases power management wasn’t working so well without it. In rest the kernel comes as usually, with all the goodies, drivers and custom build. I think this might be the most successful build of mine yet.

The ChangeLog of this new kernel release is a bit too big so I wont put it here, but you can always check it at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34.1.

OK! Enough with the blablabla, lets go directly to the download part (pick a mirror from where you can download this kernel):

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.34.1-blackjack/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.34.1-blackjack/

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-2.6.34.1-blackjack_2.6.34.1-1_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-2.6.34.1-blackjack_2.6.34.1-1_i386.deb which contains the kernel source code with the patches.

I am your father, Luke! (don’t like Start Wars, but they do have some good lines )

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