water cooler :: 2.6.6 is out

Linus Torvalds announced the release of the 2.6.6 stable kernel. A number of notable additions found their way into the mainline 2.6 kernel during this development cycle, including Jens Axboe's laptop mode and the completely fair queueing (CFQ) I/O scheduler, support for a non-executable stack on a number of architectures, several patches laying the groundwork for object-based reverse mapping, and 4KB kernel stacks for the i386 architecture reducing the kernel's per process overhead, KernelTrap reports.

...and I just built a 2.5.5 kernel a couple of days ago...

Thanks for the news.
Do you know how to upgrade kernel or DSL ?

Well, you might not want to as the Kdrive servers purportedly have problems with the 2.6.x series kernels, but there's the...

Knoppix custom kernel HOWTO and then there's also a...
Script to help automate the remastering of Knoppix.

So, maybe those'll help.

original here.