Re: Switcher's guide for 2.6? [Re: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?]
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csj wrote:
| On 18. December 2003 at 7:19AM +0100,
| Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:
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|>On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:49:10 -0700,
|>"Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote in message
|><[🔎] slrnbu25d6.ugk.spam@home.bounceswoosh.org>:
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| My main concerns revolve around video and optical storage. I've
| read many horror stories about the ide-scsi stuff being "broken"
| in 2.6. Is this true? I've also read that devfs is now
| deprecated. In favor of what?
udev, which is FAR from beeing readig. latest is 009 and it is pure dev
status. devfs still works fine for me thought.
ide-scsi is sort of broken and... out of date. with the newest cdrecord
you can write driectly to the ide drive. works als fine for me here.
[and linus is searching for a maintainer for ide-scsi]
| Is there a definitive switcher's howto or readme (URI) I should
| consult? I'd usually use google for this. But as the issue's
| still new, I expect to get lots of false positives (including
| flamewar threads on the direction of kernel development).
well, the only thing you need is the module-init-tools. If you have a
japanese keyboard you have to "reinit" the bar/backslash key. I had no
other troubles yet. I have a debian box running with 2.6 (only problem
is alsa and the i82x soundcard, but I am not sure who to blaim ...), and
some gentoo boxes without any troubles yet.
the 2.6.0 release is way more stable and secure than the 2.4.0 release.
thought the "must-fix-list" is quite long. So if it is a not mission
critical list, you can give it a try, its definitly worth. Else I would
wait at least until 2.6.2/3 for all the other patches/small problems to
be fixed that might come up in the next weeks. Furthermore, if the first
distros ship like a 2.6 ready package, there will be patches/fixes for
glibc, etc so they all work without any troubles with 2.6 kernels.
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