First LinuxQuestions.org kernel patch is released

rverlander · 08-31-2002, 08:06 AM

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?...xquestions.org
Why the hell is kernel.linuxquestions.org running Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) PHP/4.2.2 on Solaris 8???????????

tarballedtux · 08-31-2002, 09:17 AM

Interesting concept. I had to read the sourceforge description to find out what the heck the purpose of the kernel was, but great idea Jeremy. A Linux kernel for the newbies. Maybe I'll try when I install Slackware soon.

--tarballedtux

jeremy · 08-31-2002, 10:57 AM

The FM release is here - http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxquestions/

As to the OS of kernel.linuxquestions.org - it will change machines soon, but it is a resource I needed to use for now.

--jeremy

unSpawn · 08-31-2002, 12:37 PM

Long story short about patching +LQ +Grsecurity, adding header file and quick peek at sched.* there's too much errors -Walling by at compile time. I *will* test this, but this ain't the day for combing over a source tree...

jMh · 08-31-2002, 02:29 PM

Definetly look into adding grsecurity into the patch, it's got some nifty security features. www.grsecurity.net

jeremy · 08-31-2002, 03:31 PM

OK. grsecurity merged with no problems, so it will most likely be included in -lq2.

--jeremy

unSpawn · 08-31-2002, 03:56 PM

Thanks very much Jeremy!

jMh · 08-31-2002, 04:00 PM

Indeed! Thanks Jeremy

Will you be adding things such as XFS support and the pre-emptive RML kernel patch? (I know the rml patch is merged into 2.5 stock kernel, but I don't much want to run 2.5

)

jeremy · 08-31-2002, 04:13 PM

No specific plans for XFS at this time. preempt and/or low latency will be considered soon though. Some ReiserFS stuff will probably also go into -lq2.

--jeremy

rverlander · 08-31-2002, 06:45 PM

Why no XFS plans?

jMh · 08-31-2002, 08:00 PM

Ya, as far as the XFS support, I personally use XFS on some of my systems. While ext3 is nice, xfs provides some great stability. All my Gentoo boxes run it by default, and generally when I patch my linux kernels for other distro's i add xfs support

rverlander · 09-01-2002, 12:53 AM

Please consider adding TUX patches that allow usage of TUX webserver without re-compiling kernel

uniball · 09-01-2002, 08:16 AM

yes go for it
may i request adding Andre Hedrick IDE patch "but it's for the 2.4.18 only" if possible ?
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
it corrects my IDE controller problems "hangs on booting any 2.4 kernel"
Thanks!

Goatdemon · 09-01-2002, 01:32 PM

how about improving upon the ntfs file system suppot, i'd like to write to my windows drive. i know the current kernel does support this already but it's listed as experimental, i dont want to screw anything up. from what i've heard firewire support has much to be desired in linux as well. i dont know if this is what you meant by suggestions but i thought i'd through it out there anyways.

jeremy · 09-04-2002, 04:05 PM

For those of you who use BitKeeper you can also get the LQ kernel from:

http://linuxquestions.bkbits.net/

--jeremy