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It's supposedly more efficient at running for example java, if I install NPTL with it, right? Of course there is the risk of killing everything, but my system already has a lot of experimental stuff as it is. Breaking binary compatibility would be a problem though...

Don't know if I should recompile glibc from source or install binary... going to download both. Might be a good idea to remount my fat32 partition with archives and home directory in loopback files as readonly (sucks that fat32 can't handle files > 2GB). Might be a better idea just to back it up to CDROM.

Oh, and 2.5/2.6 has cryptoAPI support, so you don't have to go get the patches. Not of much practical usage though, but still.

Damn you RH users with your NPTL support .

They redid xconfig to use QT/(or GTK for gconfig) instead of tcl/tk for kernel config.

If anyone else want's to try, look this up:
http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~ned21/ ... l-2.6.html



Compile messages look cleaner, but less informative.

Too many options to select- bloat setting in...

I suppose I could also install reiserfs4 and see my data combust ,

- Installing NPTL would break OO and Java, since they have hacks to work with pthreads, so they won't work with NPTL.

However there are other benefits like forcible module unloading which would make it unnecessary to go to single user or reboot if my winmodem locks up, which gets obnoxious.

I'll just test and report bugs. Need to patch nVidia drivers and recompile winmodem driver- hope it doesn't break the winmodem driver.

There are builds of the JVM for NPTL around the 'net, but not for 2.6, IIRC.

Mandrake 9.1 also has NPTL built-in.

Ok- found that IBM's 1.4.1 JVM has nptl support built in. I don't know if it will break OO though...

Found out that my winmodem driver does not support 2.6, although "they are working on it". Makes 2.6 useful as the hurd.

Devfs support w/o backward compatibility is broken, so I have to reenable it, after spending so much time disabling(bw/c) under 2.4 (for no reason whatsoever except to save my eyes when I run ls under /dev ).

However, it is noticibly more responsive when running KDE, though all I did was move the mouse around (gui console didn't work without devfs compatibility links).

I'll leave it on my computer, and start using it when(if) the linmodem drivers come out. Haven't patched the nvidia drivers yet, so I changed it to the non-hw-3d-accelerated nv driver. Not going to install NPTL since (a)- it will break OO, and (b)- winmodem keeps me from using 2.6 anyway.

I hate winmodems.