Hallo, Joern Nettingsmeier hat gesagt: // Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: > Frank Barknecht wrote: > >* How's it working? Would you recommend going 2.5? > > fine. EXCEPT: DO NOT USE TAGGED COMMAND QUEUING FOR ATA DISKS !!!!!! > sorry for yelling, but this thing ate 200G worth of data.... > :) > other than that, it's been quite well-behaved. Thanks for that info! But we all have backups. haven't we. (/me blushes) > >* What is needed to use 2.5? > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes > expect to update a number of userspace tools, most notably modutils. I'm running Debian unstable, so I probably already have most of these. > >* When will 2.6 come out? > > when it's ready :) > you might be happy to hear that linus has released 2.6.0-test1. not that > this has any significance whatsoever. :) I expected this answer. ;) 2.4 had a very long 2.4.0-testX phase, but at least this has started the beta phase for the next version. Actually I'm asking for experiences with 2.5 because I'm writing an article on setting up a Linux audio workstation and I'm wondering if I should cover the 2.5-series in more depth than just saying: "2.5 has better latency built in, but use it only if you know what you're doing". But then, maybe instead of explaining how to patch the 2.4-kernel, I could just say: "install 2.5 and enable ALSA. Now on to installing Jack..." ;) ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
