Linux 2.6 Kernel Stability Freeze 378
An anonymous reader writes "Linux Creator Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.0-test7 Linux development kernel today and declared a "stability freeze". It has been made quite clear that from this point only "strictly necessary stuff" will be accepted, clearing the way for an official 2.6.0 release sooner than later... possibly at the end of this month."
Time to upgrade! (Score:3, Funny)
This month will certainly go down as (Score:5, Funny)
Sony PSX
Panther (Mac OS 10.3)
2.6 kernal
Half LIfe 2
Ow! Ouch! Sorry!
Re:Features? (Score:5, Funny)
My Module (Score:5, Funny)
There had better be alot to put in... (Score:0, Funny)
Stability freeze: In related news.. (Score:5, Funny)
Who cares. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Time to upgrade! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Time to upgrade! (Score:5, Funny)
BZZZZZZZZZT! WRONG! It's a "stability freeze". That means that the stabilizers are frozen, and can't function. So, it will be unstable until they get the stabilizers repaired.
Sheesh. Goofy kids these days...
Yes, but (Score:3, Funny)
I wouldn't trust anyone else's opinions.
Re:Can you help me reinstall iLife on my iBook? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Reiser 4 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Blah blah (Score:2, Funny)
Re:2.6 seems unimportant for me (Score:3, Funny)
Yes 2.4 and 2.6 are very similar, but 2.6 does have a couple advantages. Asside from the exta
Re:Yes, but (Score:3, Funny)
I was there. He said his name was Darl Mc-something, and he had a lot of his code in the Linux 26 thingy, and that's why it works.
Re:This month will certainly go down as (Score:3, Funny)
2.6 kernal
Still waiting on a spellchecker, though.
Strictly necessary stuff? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is it faster? (Score:2, Funny)
real 0m0.244s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m0.110s
to copy a 15 MB file across partitions (same physical drive). Takes me 24 seconds to copy it across network to another computer.
You are spinning your hard drives with your hand or what? Try harder!
Re:My Module (Score:4, Funny)
Re:So what's cool about 2.6 (Score:4, Funny)
I miss 'make dep' (Score:5, Funny)
It's not the same thing without 'make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install'
Now it's just 'make menuconfig && make'
Linux has gotten soft... time to migrate to BSD. I would if I could get my laptop's touchpad to work. Sigh...
Re:Strictly necessary stuff? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:BSOD module (Score:4, Funny)
On a lighter note, back in the windows 3.1/Lantastic days, I used to mess around with a program called "The Draw" (i ran a bbs, figure it out or google it) which could turn an ANSI screen into a
The funny thing is half of them would tell me they have a "blue screen thingy" without reading it, giving me the opportunity to ask them "what does it say?". Its much more fun to hear them actually read it out loud over the phone intercom.
Slackers (Score:4, Funny)
[dave@bend ~]# cat
Linux version 2.6.0-test7 (dave@bend.local.davenjudy.org) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 SMP Wed Oct 8 19:09:28 MDT 2003
[dave@bend ~]# uptime
19:37:24 up 18 min, 8 users, load average: 0.62, 0.20, 0.13
So why haven't *YOU* built and booted with 2.6.0-test7 yet?
Re:Slackers (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Who cares. (Score:1, Funny)
I knew it! When the middle digit is odd, it's an unstable development release!
Re:BSOD module (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I miss 'make dep' (Score:4, Funny)
NetBSD still has promise though. It's practically unusable. It doesn't even have sudo installed by default. If you're in a masochistic mood, try it out.
Re:You can boot into Reiserfs (Score:4, Funny)
If I had a friendly wizard I'd have no need for a computer.
Cheers
Stor
kernel freeze stable? (Score:2, Funny)