Linus Says Pre-2.6 is Coming

gomoX writes "As seen on C|Net , Linus has announced that the pre-2.6 series will be starting in early July. Despite not having been able to meet the release goal for 2.6 in June 2003, the next stable version is not as far away as you may think. You can take your guess based on the fact there was a 9 month period between first test version of 2.4 and the official release of 2.4.0 on January 2001."

Schweeeeeeeeet

[risk-dev]

'Nuff said.

Finally!

[Stephen Samuel]

A good escuse to crash my computer!.

(of course, a beta version of Linux is probably more stable than a release version of Windows, but I can actually do something with Linux if/when it blows up in my face.)

Ridiculous

[stud9920]

Your "Overt Sauce" model is clearly breaked ! Windows has been way beyond 2.6 (3.1 to be exact) since what ? 11 years ?

Re:Oh really?

[stud9920]

Linus has always maintained that a kernel will be released "when it's done".

(Insert Duke Forever joke)

New Name for New Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

not to be nitpicky or anything, but technically, shouldn't future versions of linux be referred to as GNU/SCO?

Re:What have I got to look forward to?

[mhesseltine]

Linux Trace

Trollkit (LTT): http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204 .1/0832.html

I know it's a typo, but that would make slashdot much more interesting, wouldn't it?

Re:What have I got to look forward to?

[gotem]

more lines of code from SCO

Re:What has happened to Slashdot?

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft deserves to be raked over the coals, and the government IS out to get you.
That doesn't mean that the editors aren't lazy and slower than sloths, though.

Why 9 months?

[Gzip Christ]

You can take your guess based on the fact there was a 9 month period between first test version of 2.4 and the official release of 2.4.0 on January 2001.

You might think that this was due to the birth of Linus' daughter Patricia. However, Linus actually spent those nine months cutting and pasting our code into the Linux kernel (there's so much of it, which is why it took him so long). Also, I am Patricia's real father.

-- Darl McBride

Re:What has happened to Slashdot?

[archen]

What they don't get in timeliness they make up for in volume (dupes).

Oh yeah? Well, I'm on 2.5.75, buddy!

[Anonymous Coward]

Kernel is as stable as the rocky mountains. Been compiling Mozilla non-stop in gcc for the last 3 hours with no problems.

not a day too soon

[Trepidity]

It'll be nice when it finally comes out, because I'll be able to point people doing audio work to Linux. Right now I have to say "well, Linux is better than Windows for this, but only if you apply the low-latency, pre-emptible kernel, and variable HZ (with HZ set to 1000) patches," which is a bit more involved than most people who are just doing audio work want to deal with. Once 2.6.x comes out I can just point them to the stock kernel.

Uh, question.

[Anonymous Coward]

What's the name of the new filtering tool that will "obsolete" iptables?

Re:Uh, question.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ha ha. Good one. Every f*cking time they do a major release of a kernel they
change the ip filtering. Let's guess the new name - ipchairs, ipwhips, ipstools, . . . ? ? ?

Re:Road trip, here comes memory lane

[tuba_dude]

Tell us more grandpa! Tell us about the time you wrestled and maintained 8 AIX servers single-handedly from your homebuilt Linux box! Or about the time Linus got lost and asked you for directions and you went on a whirlwind big-city adventure!

Re:Oh yeah? Well, I'm on 2.5.75, buddy!

[ghum]

t my mouse speed in gnome was sped up by about 10x over 2.4

great news! 900% speedup from Linux kernel 2.4 to 2.5.75

Re:Why 9 months?

[chef_raekwon]

You might think that this was due to the birth of Linus' daughter Patricia. However, Linus actually spent those nine months cutting and pasting our code into the Linux kernel (there's so much of it, which is why it took him so long). Also, I am Patricia's real father.

-- Darl McBride

won't you introduce us to your brother Darl, and your other brother Darl?

(okay, bad joke, but its friday, whhoooohooooo)

I'm suing Linus for this

[Sabalon]

These vaporware announcements must stop. Already since Linus announced this I have noticed a drop-off in downloads of the 2.4 kernel.

These anti-competitive practices need to be stopped. A kernel-lead developer such as Linus should have to compete on the same level as everyone else for his kernel to get used. :)

Re:What the heck?!

[darc]

I recommend "Ask slashdot (http://ask.slashdot.org)", which is sort of a newbie forum for stupid questions that can be solved with google. So, like, post all your issues, such as:

"How do I mod my xbox"
"Should I overclock my CPU"
"How do I make everything more faster"
and,
"This question is just begging to have all replies start with IANAL"

Join the club!

Re:Uh, question.

[Anonymous DWord]

ipspispopd

Re:Oh yeah? Well, I'm on 2.5.75, buddy!

[ColaMan]

Been compiling Mozilla non-stop in gcc for the last 3 hours with no problems.....
on my 486. Oh look - ./configure has just about finished! And who said you needed the latest hardware?

Argh!

[Eosha]

Well crap...just this morning I updated to 2.4. Now I can't feel all cool anymore.