[PLUG] What is changing with Linux 3.0.4?

[Paul Heinlein]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Michael C. Robinson wrote:

> The Linux 3.0.4 kernel is the current kernel.  What is changing from 
> the long running 2.6 series which has gotten up around 2.6.40 or so?

The 3.0.x series is just an incremental upgrade from 2.6.x. Linus 
wrote:

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So what are the big changes?

NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we have the usual two thirds driver
changes, and a lot of random fixes, but the point is that 3.0 is
*just* about renumbering, we are very much *not* doing a KDE-4 or a
Gnome-3 here. No breakage, no special scary new features, nothing at
all like that. We've been doing time-based releases for many years
now, this is in no way about features. If you want an excuse for the
renumbering, you really should look at the time-based one ("20 years")
instead.

So no ABI changes, no API changes, no magical new features - just
steady plodding progress.
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See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1147415.

> CentOS 6 unfortunately is down at the 2.6.34 kernel level.  I'm 
> curious if there are stability and/or other end of life issues for 
> the 2.6 kernel?

Red Hat regularly backports security updates and other key 
enhancements from the current kernel into its production kernel. I 
imagine that process won't change at all with the renumbering.

> Is it true that you have to have a gigabyte or more of ram now to
> install CentOS 6?  Huh, my old servers don't have that.

You need to have that much for the graphical installer to run. You can 
still run the text installer with less than 1 GB, but you won't get 
access to as many install-time options.

If you have a serious need to run CentOS 6 on a machine with less that 
a gigabyte of RAM, I suggest you learn how to configure and use 
the Red Hat/CentOS kickstart installation tools; that's the only route 
to a fully configurable installation on low-memory machines.

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