MaW’s Blog

As everyone probably knows by now, Linus Torvalds and the other kernel hackers gave us an early Christmas present yesterday with the release of Linux 2.6.0 final. Last night I installed it upon my Gentoo box, discovered that the keyboard mappings are still rather screwed, but that X handles things properly. I’ve got almost everything I need on the console, except for #, which is a little worrying. I guess for the time being if I can’t use X for something I can ssh in from my Powerbook and do things remotely, at least until I get the keymaps sorted out.

Framebuffer console works to a point, but it doesn’t like me trying to specify modes. I need to look into that one.

The other night was the company Christmas do, excellent food, excellent company, good venue — couldn’t have been much better really! Here’s to as good a one next year. Assuming I’m still working for them next year, that is… no plans to leave just yet, but you never know.