Posts tagged BFS

Kernel 2.6.33.3-soultrain released for Debian/Ubuntu (Soultrain)

May 3rd

Posted by robert in Linux

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Well first of all, sorry for this late release, but had some stuff to handle which at that point in time where more important. Kernel 2.6.33.3 was released last week and it comes like always with a bunch of bug fixes, improvements and new stuff added. I’m not gonna go into them, because there are too many, but just form the top of my head I will mention one small fix, which I noticed myself, and that is the thinkpad_acpi modules which didn’t work properly in the older released. By this I mean that enabling/disabling WLAN and Bluetooth didn’t work. You will have them on, but coudn’t switch them off using FN key plus F5 key. This part seems that it was fixed and now in kernel 2.6.33.3 it works like it should. In rest, I can’t tell you much, besides the fact that it works, I didn’t notice any downgrade in performance or anything similar.

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Kernel 2.6.33.2-coolcat released for Debian/Ubuntu (Coolcat)

Apr 7th

Posted by robert in Linux

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A couple of days ago Kernel 2.6.33.2 was released. Due to the Easter holidays, I didn’t have the time to build this kernel, but yesterday evening somehow I get around it and now the packages are ready for use.

There are no major stuff added in this kernel from my side, besides the removal of PAE support which seems it created some problems for some people. This means that this new release will only support 4GB of memory and of course no PAE. I hope it’s not a problem, but I can’t go two ways, or PAE or no PAE and there is also the other option to build two kernels, but I don’t really think it would be a good idea. Not now anyways.

From the kernel development team there are some bug fixes and improvement, and here they are, but if you want more details check the ChangeLog:

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Kernel 2.6.33.1-beetlejuice released for Debian/Ubuntu (Beetlejuice)

Mar 17th

Posted by robert in Linux

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Another day, another kernel, another kernel package. To be damn honest, I can’t keep up with the kernel development team. They are releasing kernels like on a production line. It’s almost impossible for a single person to keep the the releases on time, but I’m trying :)

Anyway, I will keep this short and tell you the main things. For example there is unionfs support, squashfs support, ureadahead support, BFS default scheduler (Brain Fuck Scheduler) and of course a ton of fixes from kernel devel team. Here is a sample of the ChangeLog.

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Brain Fuck Scheduler and Kernel 2.6.33 (2.6.33-final-bfs)

Mar 11th

Posted by robert in Linux

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A couple of days ago, I discovered, thanks to PCLinuxOS, a new kernel scheduler, Brain Fuck Scheduler or BFS. The name of this kernel scheduler is not very attractive, but what this scheduler does, is. It seems that this scheduler is more simple and fast, especially when it comes to low spec computers.

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.

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