Linux 2.4.18 Released

Kourino writes: "Marcelo announced the release of 2.4.18 a couple hours ago after 4 release candidates, but the tree marked 2.4.18 on kernel.org is missing the -rc4 patch that finally made the kernel releasable. Basically, what's marked as 2.4.18 is really -rc3, and what's marked as -rc4 is what should have become 2.4.18. According to Marcelo on #kernelnewbies, most users won't be affected, but people on SPARC systems should definitely grab 2.4.18-rc4. Your best bet is probably just to get 2.4.17 and patch to 2.4.18-rc4. Seems 2.4 is destined to be an "interesting" release branch ^_^; For the new release, head over to your favorite kernel.org mirror. (Marcelo will set things straight in 2.4.19-pre1.)"

NEW UPDATE

[8bahl]

I want the new MS OS killer... 2.4.666

Re:this is an enterprise ready os?

[brer_rabbit]

There are a couple of extremely stable kernels out there...

Yeah, and we'd like to know which ones!

Re:this is an enterprise ready os?

[Pope Slackman]

There are a couple of extremely stable kernels out there...

There sure are. Here's one [freebsd.org] and here's another. [openbsd.org]

C-X C-S

But what *I* want to know is...

[Aexia]

whether the Linux underwear [uclick.com] for this version has been released yet.

Re:Allow me

[dead_penguin]

"Why is this news? This isn't freshmeat! Why don't you post every time Windows has a tiny update?"

We're already one step ahead of you! If you look around, you'll see most of the comparable windows stories are about bugs, problems and vulnerabilities. Windoes news here on /. seems to be so current that it gets posted long before there even is a fix. Linux bug-type news seems to have to wait until a whole new kernel gets released. I want equality, damnit!

Re:WinXP vs. Win2000

[Strog]

You could have mentioned some of XP's other [bbspot.com] problems too. I have a test partition with XP pro on it and have not run into this particular issue yet. I hope I never do. Makes a crash a little more serious.

Re:Why not release 2.4.19 immediately?

[GigsVT]

Then everyone would bitch and whine, like they did when Linux released a kernel three days after the last.

Well, now I know

[GSV NegotiableEthics]

Yep, now I know what kernel I'll be running on Debian Stable in 2005...

Re:Please seperate Linux kernel from Linux OS topi

[PD]

Imagine that it's 1983, and I decided that I wanted to filter out everything that wasn't of particular interest to me at that time.

Now, jump ahead to 2002. I would have missed all the great leaps of the past 20 years. I wouldn't even have a clue that I would want a beowulf cluster of Commodore 64's! I might even post a comment like this to Ask Slashdot: "Hello Slashdot, I was in a restaurant the other day and I overheard some people laughing hysterically about something called Amiga. It sounded really fun. Doesn anyone know if I can buy one?" Oh, I would have been just like Rip Van Winkle if I had managed to filter out everything that wasn't of interest to me.