[KLUG Members] 2.4.22 On The Verge

[Adam Williams]

> 2.4.22 is officially released!
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/46306/
> > "Marcelo released a fourth 2.4.22 release candidate to fix "a few annoying
> > bugs;" then put out the real 2.4.22 kernel shortly thereafter. The biggest
> > changes to be found in 2.4.22 for most people will be the big ACPI, ia64, and
> > AIC7xxx updates and the inclusion of the crypto API, but there is a great deal
> > of other work in there as well."
> > ACPI! ACPI! ACPI!  Laptop Linux users rejoice!
> Are you going to try it?  If so, PLEASE let me know how it works!

I intend to try it, ACPI would fix several problems I have.

> Or are you going to wait for official Redhat RPMS?  
> (may not be soon)

Nah, I won't wait.  RedHat takes forever on kernel stuff.

> > And the Cyrpto API?!  Does this mean ipSec support won't suck?  PPTP (i.e
> > MPPE-128 can be built in)?  
> The word I heard is YES, FreeS/WAN should be able to work without a
> kernel patch.  HOWEVER, FreeS/WAN has to catch up with this latest
> development before it'll work.  Not sure about PPTP.

After some testing I'm thinking of cancelling support for all VPN
technologies other than OpenVPN when the new year rolls around.    It'll
crank some of the Win9x people I have left, but "Oh Well!".  Bill will
be happy with me since it will drive about half a dozen people to send
him more money.

So far OpenVPN  is really nice,  although generating 2048 but keys with
Diffie Hellman encoding takes a *LONG* time (only done at setup anyway).

> Don't quote me on that.  My sources are not totally reliable.  :-)

I presume you DL guys would know everything about that.