Hoogste tijd om weer eens melding te maken van de vorderingen met betrekking tot de kernel 
. Inmiddels zijn we aangeland bij patch 2.4.4-pre6, die zoals altijd geschikt is voor àlle platforms, en natuurlijk ook zoals altijd pré-productie software is.
Wie de kernel-patches dus wil gebruiken moet voorzichtig en omzichtig te werk gaan . Voor de liefhebber hier het volledige changelog van patch pre-1 tot en met pre-6:
pre6:
Chris Mason: daemonize reiserfs commit thread
Alan Cox: syncup (AFFS might even work, and official VIA workarounds)
Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
Paul Mackerras: PPP update
David Howells: more rw-sem cleanups, updates. Slowly getting somewhere.
pre5:
Mike Phillips: olympic driver update
Alan Cox: continued resyncing (lots of small stuff, big NTFS merge from Anton)
Martin Dalecki: cleanup (remove unused and unnecessary het_hardblocksize)
Chris Mason: fix potential reiserfs journal overflow
Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
David Miller: sparc fixes, some network cleanups
pre4:
David Miller: sparc rw semaphores moved over
Alan Cox: yet more resyncs
[bullet[NIIBE Yutaka: Super-H driver update
David Howells: more rw-sem cleanups, updates
USB updates
Al Viro: filesystem init cleanup
pre3:
Hui-Fen Hsu: sis900 driver update
NIIBE Yutaka: Super-H update
Alan Cox: more resyncs (ARM down, but more to go)
David Miller: network zerocopy, Sparc sync, qlogic,FC fix, etc.
David Miller/me: get rid of various drivers hacks to do mmap alignment behind the back of the VM layer. Create a real protocol for it.
pre2:
Ingo Molnar/Al Viro: don't use bforget() on ext2 (and minix) metadata where we may not be the only owner of the buffer! FS corruption.
Andi Kleen: IPv6 packet re-assembly fix.
David Howells: fix up rwsem implementation
Alan Cox: more merging (S/390 down, ARM to go).
Jens Axboe: LVM and loop fixes
pre1:
Bob Tracy: Cyrix MTRR setup fix(don't make it twice as big as asked for)
Trond Myklebust: rpciod needs to be PF_MEMALLOC to avoid deadlocks on memory allocation when writing out NFS data under low memory conditions.
Fix up BKL and RPC interactions.
Jeff Garzik: tulip network driver update
fix truncate to call down to the filesystem with the kernel lock.
David Mosberger: ia64 update
David Mosberger: simplify ELF program header generation.
Alan Cox: merge from -ac series
Jeff Garzik: make serial.c recognize modem devices properly
