Fwd: Old kernels used for sparc daily builds - linux gets used - order by pertinence

Linux 2.6.38-rc1

It's been two weeks, and the merge window for 2.6.38 is thus closed. And an interesting merge window it has been. This merge window saw the introduction of two of my favorite new features: - the use of group scheduling to give nicer interactive ...

Message posted on the January 18th, 2011 - 7:00 PM ET

Larry gets his very own distro

Looks like the Distro Culling Committee will have to get a new chairman: [quote] Why Hadron? There are many Linux distributions, Hadron is one of them. So that why do you use it? You don’t have to. We must say, Hadron has no extreme ...

Message posted on the January 28th, 2012 - 1:21 AM ET

[GIT PULL] idle patches for Linux 3.1

Hi Linus, please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6.git idle-release A new power management driver for Moorestown (essentially a platform idle driver). Plus some small cpuidle cleanups that were on the ...

Message posted on the August 3rd, 2011 - 5:00 PM ET

controlling the 'eth0' device that gets detect by ifconfig

I used to run Kubuntu linux and my network addresses would be detected properly during startup. I have switched to crunchbang linux and my network runs ok except on one PC the OS is not detecting the correct port for eth0 and I don't know how to fix ...

Message posted on the July 27th, 2012 - 12:07 PM ET

[Article] My Linux Rig

The Linux Setup - Terrence OBrien, Engadget I suspected Terrence OBrien was a Linux user when I started noticing he seemed to be behind just about all of Engadgets Linux coverage. It turns out I was right about Terrence. Not only that, he gets a ...

Message posted on the May 2nd, 2012 - 7:40 PM ET

Linux 3.4-rc4

Things looked fairly calm for a while, but that certainly changed yesterday. I think either people time their pulls for the -rc releases too, or it's just a matter of many developers actually having a somewhat normal Mon-Fri workweek these days and ...

Message posted on the April 21st, 2012 - 6:50 PM ET

[PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Add INSTALL_MOD_PATH to the environment used by depmod

Add INSTALL_MOD_PATH explicitly to the environment given to depmod. This way putting an INSTALL_MOD_PATH line into a GNUmakefile (along with things like CROSS_COMPILE) will work properly. Signed-off-by: Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us> It seems ...

Message posted on the March 9th, 2012 - 5:10 PM ET

so what gets the vote for most robust (and pretty) mp3 app these days?

after a decade-long hiatus, i'm going back to linux soon. but wanna be prepared. in windows, i've gotten very used to Winamp. not only is it a good player, but it handles video and playlists well, converts, etc. what's the closest thing to it in ...

Message posted on the December 20th, 2012 - 11:03 PM ET

Ardour / Harrison Mixbus Gets Laughed At.

This is what happens when real musicians and engineers try Ardour or the commercial Harrison Mixbus which is based on Ardour. These aren't amateur fanboys like TomB and sMarti. They are real musicians and engineers. Some professional and some ...

Message posted on the June 5th, 2012 - 8:40 PM ET

Bug#687099: live-boot: Breaks booting when used from Squeeze

Package: live-boot Version: 3.0~b2-1 Severity: important When building an Squeeze debian live cd inside an Squeeze system and trying to use live-boot* packages from unstable seems to be broken. When I boot I get: Loading, please wait..., ...

Message posted on the September 9th, 2012 - 1:00 PM ET

Study: liars (= dishonest cola Linux scum) most likely to lie via text messages

http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/21/9606853-liars-likely-to-use-texts-to-deceive Interesting. You cola Linuxfux must have huge text messaging bills every month. You also lie your dirtbag asses off here on Usenet, of course ...

Message posted on the December 21st, 2011 - 8:32 PM ET

[PATCH v3 0/2] Stop some of the abuse of BUG() where compile time checks should be used.

From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> For v3: No code changes. Fix comment text in kernel.h to correctly reflect the name BUILD_BUG(). Updated patch chanegelogs with slightly better descriptions and some Acked-by: headers. Andrew, ...

Message posted on the November 23rd, 2011 - 6:50 PM ET

[PATCH v2 0/2] Stop some of the abuse of BUG() where compile time checks should be used.

From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> New for v2: As suggested by 'DM', call the macro BUILD_BUG() instead of BUILD_BUG_ON_USED(). Linus seemed satisfied with this, so if it still looks good, can we put it in some linux-next tree ...

Message posted on the November 22nd, 2011 - 1:20 PM ET

[PATCH 0/2] Stop some of the abuse of BUG() where compile time checks should be used.

From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> After some, perhaps justified, reluctance to merge dummy symbol definitions containing BUG() into header files, I propose these patches instead. We define a new compile time assertion ...

Message posted on the November 21st, 2011 - 8:40 PM ET