[KLUG Members] Reports from the bleeding edge....

[Adam Williams]

>>>2.5.59 would compile (gcc 3.2), but hang at boot. 2.5.66 runs, and
>>>runs nicely, if you do the following:
>>How about a whats new with 2.5/2.6 kernels presentation.
>That might work, but so much of the good stuff has been backported to
>2.4 vendor kernels anyway you might not notice any difference! 
>ALSA over OSS - my understanding is that Red Hat ships these already.

I think in RH8, yes.  All I remember is that installing 8.0 on my wife
laptop, sound just worked; as it does on iPaqs.  Neither was true with
7.x, that required dinking.

>New POSIX Threads for Linux/Next Gen. POSIX Threads - I think both
>require large glibc changes and are still 2.5 only, though they are not
>actually included.

This is apparently in 9.0,  although I don't recall seeing it in Pheobe
(I run lots of Java apps, not of them crashed, a solid indicator that
POSIX threading wasn't there).