Matthew Walton’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.