Alphagate Systems Kernel Patchset 2.6-AS23 review

Alphagate Systems Kernel Patchset provides new technologies and features, standard enhancements, as well as trivial-but-necessary fix

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Alphagate Systems

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Alphagate Systems Kernel Patchset provides new technologies and features, standard enhancements, as well as trivial-but-necessary fixes, that have not yet made it into the mainline (vanilla) Kernel.

So on one side, you get the next-gen code, while retaining stability is of concern. We choose SUSE Kernels because it is another stage of quality assurance that things do work reasonably.

2.6-AS22 is based on 2.6.15, which is quite a jump from 2.6.13. Certain things are missing because they are not available yet, such as TPROXY support. Because of this, AS21 and AS22 were released at the same time.

Components:

Netfilter: IMQ, ROUTE, SYSRQ, TARPIT, XOR, connlimit, layer7, nth, random, u32, rICMP
ttyrpld 2.10 rpldev
CDFS 2.6.12
BalaBit TPROXY 2.0.2 for 2.6.13
SquashFS 2.2, +xmagic, +scan4it extensions
UnionFS 20051130
QuadDSP 1.2 - 4-channel audio output tools
MultiAdmin 1.0.3
THKD for Toshiba harddisks
cdemu 0.7
NDISwrapper 1.7
RaLink RT2X00 drivers
snd-pcsp audio driver and pcspkr emergency sound upon Oops, Panic or BUG
Partition display upon rootfs mismount
Boot time improvement by nosynchro RTC
Visual plus: AS CKO, PureVGA, BSDUnderline, Con Loglevel, pipesize stat
various /proc hardeners
various small fixes (incl. UTF-8 console compose and userspace greediness fix)
mouse button swap
Staircase 13.2 provided (but not activated by default)

What's New in This Release:
Unionfs, tproxy, sonypi, sony_acpi, the staircase scheduler, full preemption, and some other minor parts were updated.