Get it whilst its hot.. Linux Kernel 2.6.17 (Crazed Snow-Weasel)

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Grab it from your favourite mirror
(if you're brave enough)

Full Changelog can be found here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17

Summary on slashdot reads:
"After almost three months, Linux 2.6.17 has been released. The changes include support for Sun Niagara CPUs, a new I/O mechanism called 'splice' which can improve the performance greatly for some applications, a scheduler domain optimized for multicore machines, driver for the widely used broadcom 43xx wifi chip (Apple's Airport Extreme and such), iptables support for the H.323 protocol, CCID2 support for DCCP, softmac layer for the wireless stack, block queue IO tracing, and many other changes listed at the changelog"

Someone really ought to produce a nice summarised version of the changelog notes, something a little more easily readable to go alongside the current large logs produced!
 
Well, compiled and all is well. I haven't noticed any performance increase yet, but I haven't done any benchmarking at all. But if you are going to compile from source, patch the kernel with this:

Kernel Patch

Download the "normal" patch, then before you compile the kernel, just do a:
cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.17
bzcat /path/to/patch-2.6.17-ck1.bz2 | patch -p1

It will optimise the kernel for desktop use. Again, I'm not sure if there is a performance increase, but every little helps i guess ;)

Have fun!
 
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