Introduction

From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDJhp-0007OO-L2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:32:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j88ASeuT022191; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:28:40 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j88ASeMV000993 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:28:40 GMT Message-Id: <200509081028.j88ASeMV000993@robin.gentoo.org> Received: from lark.gentoo.osuosl.org ([140.211.166.177] helo=lark.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDJhb-00055F-4H for gentoo-doc-cvs@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:32:19 +0000 Received: by lark.gentoo.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:32:09 +0000 From: "Shyam Mani" Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:32:09 +0000 To: gentoo-doc-cvs@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: migration-to-2.6.xml Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-doc-cvs@gentoo.org Reply-to: docs-team@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 090f1710-02ce-4c0b-81fe-4ef2727eea3b X-Archives-Hash: 43e15dc32b11c023e17db7ce8026d6dc fox2mike 05/09/08 10:32:09 Modified: xml/htdocs/doc/en migration-to-2.6.xml Log: #101398 - Grammatical and spelling fixes, thanks to vanquirius and rane for reporting. Revision Changes Path 1.21 +10 -10 xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml?rev=1.21&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml?rev=1.21&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml.diff?r1=1.20&r2=1.21&cvsroot=gentoo Index: migration-to-2.6.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml,v retrieving revision 1.20 retrieving revision 1.21 diff -u -r1.20 -r1.21 --- migration-to-2.6.xml 8 Sep 2005 10:10:28 -0000 1.20 +++ migration-to-2.6.xml 8 Sep 2005 10:32:09 -0000 1.21 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ - + @@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ Introduction

-Whats new in Linux 2.6? +What is new in Linux 2.6?

-That is no easy question to answer. Linux 2.6 is the result of over 2 years of -rapid development and stabilisation of new features, and is architectually -quite different from its 2.4 counterpart. Some of the more major changes are -listed below: +That is not an easy question to answer. Linux 2.6 is the result of over 2 years +of rapid development and stabilisation of new features, and is architecturally +quite different from its 2.4 counterpart. Some of the major changes are listed +below:

-If you're using a 2.4 profile, please change it to one that supports a 2.6 +If you are using a 2.4 profile, please change it to one that supports a 2.6 kernel by doing the following.

If you are not a LVM user, but you think LVM2 sounds useful for you, you can convert your disks to this format at a later date, by following the Gentoo LVM2 Installation Guide. For now, lets +link="/doc/en/lvm2.xml">Gentoo LVM2 Installation Guide. For now, let us just concentrate on getting a smooth 2.6 migration underway.

Recent 2.4 kernels will also allow you to use "usbfs" as well as "usbdevfs", so -you aren't breaking any backwards compatibility by doing this. +you are not breaking any backwards compatibility by doing this.

(and dont forget to select your soundcard from the submenus!)

(and do not forget to select your soundcard from the submenus!)

(the following are required if you use LVM for disk management):