Because I’ve tried it already for the past couple of days and I’ve found this scheduler to be really good, I also decided to make a new kernel release which includes this scheduler, so the kernel wont use the classic scheduler, but the new BFS one.

I’ve tested kernel 2.6.33 with this scheduler on my Lenovo T61 laptop and it does make things a bit faster, especially when it comes to desktop virtualization, like VirtualBox, video applications and even Firefox.

Because I don’t want to get into too many details and also I’m not much of a developer to understand what and how this scheduler is modified, I would recommend any of you to go to the project web site and check it out: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/bfs-faq.txt.

Now the download part is the same like for any other release and here are the links:

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.33-final-bfs/

Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.33-final-bfs/

Download at least the linux-image package, install it and test it. I do hope it will help for most of you in speeding up a bit the computer and processing times.

Good luck and please let me know if you have any issues with it.

Because I don’t wanna carry too much about this and that and plus I don’t really have much time, I will just say that this final release seems to bring tons of improvements top to bottom, so it should present a good speed and stability especially with the ext4 module and i915 and drm modules. In my tests, it does seems to be quite fast, the kernel itself, but also the Intel i915 module too. The only thing it remains is for you guys to download it and test it.

OK! I’ll stop beating around the bush and go directly to the installation and download part, which will be the same like before, just different package name. So you will need root access or sudo access, plus dpkg and the will to try it out. Download the packages from http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.33-final/ (US/CA mirror) and remember that to use this kernel you will need at least linux-image-2.6.33-final_2.6.33-1_i386.deb package.

A little help for beginners who wanna use this kernel. After you download the package use dpkg to install it, like this:

sudo dpkg -i –force-all linux-image-2.6.33-final_2.6.33-1_i386.deb (you do the same with the rest of the packages)

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-2.6.33-final_2.6.33-1_all.deb which contains the kernel source code.

Good day people!