Taking advantage of new stuff in 2.4.0

[ndogg]

Has anyone figured out how to take advantage of some of the new stuff in the Linux kernel 2.4.0? Some of the stuff looks really cool, but I haven't had a chance to try them out yet (and I don't really feel like breaking my system). Stuff like the new DevFS and khttpd sound really cool. What I really want to figure out is the new I20 thing. Will it work for any PCI cards, or only ones that specifically implement it?

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[The King Ant]

Good question.

I like the new firewall stuff. It just feels better. I'm not sure how much more effective my rules are now though...

USB is fun too, but I guess the 2.2 kernels have that now. I've used a USB mouse, printer, and Rio500, it's funish. My roomate and I share 1 printer, so he uses the printer port and I use the USB port (on the back of the printer--it's an HP).

[Craig McPherson]

I've been using iptables for more than half a year now, and it's awesome. The full NAT support is cool, the syntax is cleaner, and there's all kinds of connection tracking stuff that I'll probably never even get around to using. You can actually use iptables as a kinda-semi-sorta-stateful firewall now, so next time a BSD bigot looks down his nose at you and says "Linux doesn't have a stateful firewall," you can smirk right back at him and say "Yes it DOES! Sorta." He'll be reeling after that.

DevFS -- I use it. It works. The concept is cool. But in reality -- well, nobody's going to notice the difference. It's really a behind-the-scenes thing. Yeah, it's cool technology, but it won't radically change your view of the universe or pop up naked pictures of Natalie Portman on your screen. If you want to try it out, just read the Help option for it in the kernel config... it'll point you to a step-by-step document on how to set it up that's included with the kernel source. I had it up in 5 minutes with no problems. (Well, one problem: you can't use mingetty with DevFS, it seems. You have to use the fully getty)

kHTTPD is... well, exactly what it says it is. Again, very cool technology, but not likely to change your worldview to any great extent. You compile it in, change some stuff in /proc, and it works. Again, the help option for it in the kernel configuration points you to a file telling you how to turn it on.

That's about all of the new stuff I've played with.

Oh yeah... ReiserFS. You have to patch it in (so far), but it's awesome. Awesome.

[pipe]

I'm still using a Reiser patched 2.4-test10 kernel. It works so well I am holding off upgrading until reiserfs has been merged into the kernel. I hear that could be in the next release 2.4.1. Anyone know more about this?

[PLBlaze]

ReiserFS is in the pre kernel series (2.4.1-pre4 was the first one that had reiserfs merged).If you feel like upgrading then the latest 2.4.1-pre10 has it,don't forget to get the utils from reisefs.org and you should be good to go.Hope this helps.

[i8degrees]

Built-in PPPOE? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif I haven't gotten to test out this feature but it just feels better having the kernel doing everything on a router than having all these different programs do it.

[Gaccm]

the only wat i was able to get pppoe working is getting a patched version of pppd (and i think its the only way since i got the URL from the help while Xmaking the kernel) and frankly, rp-pppoe was much simpler.

[pipe]

Originally posted by pipe:
I'm still using a Reiser patched 2.4-test10 kernel. It works so well I am holding off upgrading until reiserfs has been merged into the kernel. I hear that could be in the next release 2.4.1. Anyone know more about this?

Heh, quoting my own post.

2.4.1 does indeed have reiserfs merged. I built and installed it last nite. NVIDIA kernel and GLX drivers 0.9-6 work great as well.



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