Linux Kernel 2.5.1 is Out 306
xise writes: "The next installment in the 2.5 Linux Kernel beta series, 2.5.1 is avaliable at the usual place Linux Kernel Archives. Remember to use the mirrors. You can read the changelog here."
You will have many recoverable tape errors.
Re:didledididee...two kernels (Score:2, Insightful)
If you wanna know where to find the FMs, www.linuxdoc.org [linuxdoc.org] is a good place to start.
Kernel 2.5.2pre1 is out (Score:2, Insightful)
I also don't see announcements of FreeBSD beta, only RELEASES. And it should stay that way.
I think you guys missed some of the point... (Score:3, Insightful)
And if you are one of those complaining... c'mon... grow up. Like it *really* killed you to read one extra headline.
Re:Argh(Argh()) (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Why all the names? (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't have a problem with people sticking their names in the Changelog - they've done this voluntarily and without pay, in their own time, when they could have been doing other stuff, don't you think they deserve just a little recognition? They've done a great job.
And it serves a purpose too as already pointed out - it allows you to see who was responsible for a change, so your type can be quick to blame them if feature X related to their change fails to work/crashes/panics/oopses/whatever
FreeBSD probably has a more sensible policy here (Score:4, Insightful)
This is mainly because FreeBSD does not assign flashy version numbers to their betas, only to releases. For a current beta, grab the FreeBSD-current [freebsd.org] distribution, and you're up to date. If you don't know how to do that, then it's not for you anyway.
They don't advertize that, and I think it's a good idea not to do so, because it saves a lot of end users a lot of trouble. There's an extra section in the FreeBSD manual [freebsd.org] saying that the -current distribution is not "a fast-track to getting pre-release bits because you heard there is some cool new feature in there and you want to be the first on your block to have it", and that sums it up quite well. Better than assigning 5.0.7b1-BETA and waiting for end user complaints to pour in, anyway.
Re:This is development! DO NOT DEPLOY (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:I think you guys missed some of the point... (Score:2, Insightful)
One word: EBay. :-)