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Kernel 2.6.35.4-bubbleboy released for Debian/Ubuntu (Bubbleboy)

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521 days
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It’s been a while since the release of kernel 2.6.35 and there are several version out. I haven’t build and release them, because all of them had several serious bugs and where fixed within days from their release. Version 2.6.35.4 seems more stable and more clean-up and I’ve decided it’s a good release to make it into a package. Also because some of you have mentioned the idea, I also will post the URLs to download the patches and kernel config used in this kernel build. This way, any of you can download the kernel tarball from kernel.org, get the patches and config and build your own kernel, regardless of the Linux distributions.

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.

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Kernel 2.6.35-final already here! WoW :)

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548 days
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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 :) .

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.

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Kernel 2.6.34-final is here!

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626 days
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After a couple of days of waiting for BFS scheduler patch and rebuilding the patch for ureadahead, kernel 2.6.34-final is here. I know, again, it’s with a certain delay, but some parts are not in my control and it’s not much that I can do about it.

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.

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

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642 days
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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)

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668 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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