I should be able to use my USB wireless adapter as an access point now, thanks to this kernel. :) Just need to wait for AMD to update the fglrx driver so that I can actually use it. :(

ZOMG I seem to have soiled myself with excitement!!

My mistake, it was actually just a loss of motor control brought on by extreme indifference.

Zzzzz.....

Can now access the full 512MB of memory via PS3FB filesystem. You want ultra-fast swap? You got it...

It's 50% quicker than the kernel patch that YDL6.1 has been using...

Here's hoping BtrFS puts paid to the ZFS-will-rule-the-OSS-World bleating from the Sunshiners. Now, if the uberPenguinistas will kindly download it and fix all the bugs before I get round to playing with it around July time I'll be quite happy!

Will we see Taz as an icon for these posts for those 'wont somebody think of the children/devils' posts.

This proves that The Wrong Trousers --- wherein a penguin impersonates a chicken for nefarious ends --- was wrong, it most certainly was a tasmanian devil who was the perpetrator!

Tuz the Tasmanian devil was the mascot for the linux.conf.au conference held in January 2009 in Hobart, Tasmania. It was a brilliant idea - the Tassie Devil with the penguin disguise to fit in with all the penguinistas coming to Hobart. Attendees are proud owners of Tuz stuffed toys.

There is a charity auction at the conference dinner every year, and this year the cause was Save The Tassie Devil. The auction was a free-ranging affair. Linus Torvalds offered to change the logo from Tux to Tuz for one release of the kernel if the bidding reached a good amount.

Also at the auction Bdale Garbee of HP was persuaded (again, after demanding higher bids) to allow Linus Torvalds to shave off his beard, which duly happened on Friday and made the television news in Hobart. Pictures, complete with Bdale holding Tuz, at http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/274149 /slideshow_linus_torvalds_shaves_bdale_garbee_beard?fp=4194304&fpid=1

A blow-by-blow description of the auction is at http://zarfmouse.livejournal.com/291848.html

The auction was on the evening Wednesday 21 January. I think Linus was surprised when the patch to change Tux to Tuz was submitted overnight, and a Linux with Tuz was shown booting at a conference keynote speech the next morning.

More on Tuz replacing Tux, if only for one kernel release, at http://www.itwire.com/content/view/23976/1141/

... is that picture in the article?

Since when does a Tasmanian Devil have a BEAK?

Have you ever tried to bathe a grumpy cat? Well that's about the same as a Tassie devil at it's most placid. They're vicious little beasties. It's a real shame about the face eating disease they all seem to be getitng :(

These animals are what I love the most about being Australian. Even the small cuddly looking ones will try to rip your face off.

just 'coz it's not in the story...

http://tassiedevil.com.au/

The tumour's caused a really nasty virus... that's a clone... and transmissible. Chances of it jumping host to humans is next to non-existant. Still, it's a perfect opportunity to (a) save an endangered species (b) study clone viruses (c) study cancers

Both found in Tasmania.

I can see a connection here.

You *plainly* haven't actually read the whole article have you..............

Dumbo!

Being an Aussie - and given that the 'slang' name for Tasmania is "Tassie", please call the devil by the right name "Taz".

And yes I am sure that Linus didnt want to change Tuxs' name too much, but I would venture to suggest that most Aussies would know the Tassie Devil as Taz.