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

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774 days
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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)

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795 days
by in Linux, News

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)

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801 days
by in Linux, News

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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Kernel 2.6.33-final is here!

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811 days
by in Linux, News

A couple of days ago kernel 2.6.33 was released. Due to some personal issues which I had to deal with, I couldn’t actually release the packages sooner than now.

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.

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Kernel 2.6.32.8-pharox released for Debian/Ubuntu (Pharox)

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828 days
by in Linux, News

Today seems a good day to release a new kernel package. It’s Friday, it’s almost weekend and why not have some fun with a new kernel release. The kernel was release a couple of days ago, but to be honest, I couldn’t build it due to not having a machine working on some older Ubuntu. Now, if you do not remember what I am talking about, I will give you a small hint, if you have a newer version of Ubuntu or Debian and you do build a kernel and then of course you wanna use that build kernel on some older Ubuntu or Debian, it wont be possible due to libc libraries incompatibility, so because of this you need to build the kernel or kernel package on older system and the you can use it on newer systems too.

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