Linux Beta Kernel 2.5.16 Out

dipfan writes "The latest beta version of the Linux kernel 2.5.16 is out, with some comments by Linus here, who was kept 'personally somewhat busy' by 'the interesting Intel SMP-P4 TLB corruption bug, which ends up being due to some very funky asynchronous speculative TLB fill logic'. Woo hoo. Mirrors, etc." We haven't been keeping up with the 2.5.x series, but a slow Sunday is a good excuse to catch up.

OpenBSD 3.1 released today...

[karlm]

<rant> ... and this makes the front page?

I prefer Linux myself, but a major and highly respected new *NIX distro release beats a beta kernel release and day of my 8-day week.
</rant>

Shouldn't P4 fix have been #ifdef'ed?

[drok]

Ok, I may be clueless here, but given this comment from Linus:

The TLB invalidate rewrite will likely have broken all other architectures (at least performance-wise, if not in any other way), so architecture maintainers look out!

Since it sounds like this was a P4 specific issue, and a P4 specific fix, shouldn't it have been #ifdef'ed for the architecture?

-Robert

Re:good thing I'm not...

[ajakk]

Actually, you are flamebaiting a bit. One main difference between linux and windows is that the development and testing for linux is done in the open. So you can install a development or a testing kernel if you would like. Linux just gives you more options. If a kernel is working fine for what you are doing, then don't upgrade unless there is a security issue.

Please tell me how it is any worse than using Windows?

Re:OpenBSD 3.1 released today...

[Mathness]

I agree. Though I mostly use Linux myself, I would really like to see info/news about other OS' as well.

One of them might have exactly what I need, or could be needing in the future.

(Currently missing a galaxy and lightspeed simulator.)