I like to patch the Linux kernel with...

Submitted by Jeremy
on December 25, 2004 - 8:33pm
...the -mm patchset.
8% (186 votes)
...the -ac patchset.
8% (200 votes)
...the -pac patchset.
0% (3 votes)
...the -ck patchset.
10% (244 votes)
...the -lck patchset.
0% (12 votes)
...the -cko patchset.
4% (95 votes)
...the -wolk patchset.
0% (11 votes)
...the -folk patchset.
0% (4 votes)
...the latest -bk release.
2% (49 votes)
...the -mjb patchset
0% (4 votes)
...the -wli patchset.
0% (1 vote)
...the -tiny patchset.
0% (7 votes)
...my own set of patches.
6% (153 votes)
...no patches, I like it plain vanilla.
26% (643 votes)
...whatever patches my distribution gives it to me with.
17% (429 votes)
...another patchset.
4% (105 votes)
.../dev/null
13% (315 votes)
Total votes: 2461

-ck

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 26, 2004 - 7:44am

-ck just rocks!

-ck just rocks! : Please explain.

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 27, 2004 - 1:46am

Hello:
saying this is good. does not do much for us. Saying WHY this is good, is really good!

/dev/null rocks too!

Thorium (not verified)
on
December 27, 2004 - 11:07am

/dev/null rocks too!

WHY??! BECAUSE!!!

Anonymous (not verified)
on
January 1, 2005 - 9:08pm

Try it: get the patch...

http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/

and you know WHY!

Reiser 4

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 27, 2004 - 11:12am

Now if Linus would only include Reiser 4...

Reiser 4

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 27, 2004 - 2:47pm

The patchset I use is http://hvk.sourceforge.net/, this includes reiser 4 as well as -ac.

And -mm.

Mind Booster Noori
on
January 11, 2005 - 5:38am

And -mm.

Let's not focus on merging st

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 27, 2004 - 2:49pm

Let's not focus on merging stuff in as quikly as possible. Look what happend to freebsd, this 5.x release have so much new stuff in it, it's unstable,slow, let's call it not efficient enough for real time work. Linux is heading in a good direction. Lets first improve and stablize as much as possible, add focus on entropy harvesting optimizations as last, then add new features and loop this procedure. This will give us some kick ass results. :)

- Arvind.

Unstable

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 27, 2004 - 2:59pm

Things only get unstable because either too active development and not enough testing or bad quality control.

Huoh, we don't have infinite

Anonymous (not verified)
on
January 8, 2005 - 10:37am

Huoh, we don't have infinite resources. Just too less number of testers and developers.

Good words. I think also like

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 28, 2004 - 11:12pm

Good words. I think also like you, or we are in Redmond back..

FreeBSD5 isn't any more unsta

Anonymous (not verified)
on
January 13, 2005 - 4:41am

FreeBSD5 isn't any more unstable for me than either 2.2, 2.4 or 2.6 Linicen. But Linux is faster in microbenchmarks. But everyone says they are pointless :).
I agree btw, leaving code stabilize first is a good thing.

why use -ck when theres -cko?

auzy
on
December 28, 2004 - 7:11am

-cko is basically -ck with a few more patches such as reiser4, inotify (needed for stuff like beagle, and is a much better method of identifying changes to files then FAM anyway), etc. So if you want to keep up to date with technologies, cko is great, and has the added benefit of the -cko performance enchancements (not sure how well those have been benchmarked though).

-mm I always have found a bit too buggy for me.. not sure how it is now, but even at 2.6.9-mm, after a reboot, my pcmcia died on bootup..

Right now though I use the vanilla kernel, and I'm going to patch it with inotify so I can start messing with inotify again (reiser4 turned out to be a disaster for me, so not trying that again for a while).

The rest of the patchsets I have either never tried, or barely tried.

Auzy
Resonance
(An attempt at creating the first internet based Zeroconf/service sharing system)

why use -ck when theres -cko

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 30, 2004 - 7:44pm

why use -ck when theres -cko?

Because it offers me nothing extra that I want? I just want the performance enhancements of -ck, and the more patches you add the more chance there is for broken builds and instability.

nitro!

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 28, 2004 - 10:11am

agree..

drfreak
on
December 28, 2004 - 6:55pm

I just switched to -nitro from -cko. I used to use wolk, but it seems to be slipping in the update dept. -nitro pays more attention to game performance than the others IMHO. Half-Life 2 in Cedega is proof enough for me. :)

nitro is for ricers. It h

Anonymous (not verified)
on
January 30, 2005 - 11:27pm

nitro is for ricers.

It has no QA and will, for the most part, SLOW down your system.

Don't use it unless you're trying to be 'leet'. And if you are trying to be leet, please use another operating system.

Up to date

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 28, 2004 - 2:53pm

Patched with service pack 2!

my own...

codergeek42 (not verified)
on
December 28, 2004 - 3:55pm

vanilla patched with vesafb-tng and CK's staircase scheduler.

The ck patch set from Con (ma

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 28, 2004 - 11:18pm

The ck patch set from Con (many thanks for your work, Con) should Linus include in the next time as an option in the config for desktop users eg, which then switch to these fine improvements, or not for other users.

The last ck patches for 2.6.9 were so stable and fast with my Fedora 3 x86_64 GNOME system.

Stable Kernel

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 30, 2004 - 1:48am

I think changing the CPU scheduler in a stable kernel is a bad idea, there is needs to more testing with different CPU scheduler design.

Problems

Anonymous (not verified)
on
January 3, 2005 - 10:17pm

Not to mention the problems reported with the staircase scheduler in game (especially wine) performance.

There are something broken in 2.6.10-ck1

Anonymous (not verified)
on
December 30, 2004 - 12:11pm

I compiled it with CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y and my X crashes evrey now and then and I when I run sim all the gnome-panel gets broken. 2.6.10 works fine for my.

My patches

InfiriT
on
December 31, 2004 - 6:23pm

I have vanilla with Inotify and reiser4 patches. -mm has been to unstable for me.

-mm

Anonymous (not verified)
on
January 1, 2005 - 4:13am

-mm kernel seems to be frozen for a while now.

-kj from the fine kernel jant

Anonymous (not verified)
on
January 7, 2005 - 8:36am

-kj from the fine kernel jantitors is missing.
latest applies to 2.6.10, always also referenced in #kernelnewbies,
i'm running this one.

PowerPack patchset

pst (not verified)
on
January 8, 2005 - 4:04am

Site moved to : http://yoper

snaj (not verified)
on
April 28, 2005 - 9:34am

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