

Linus Announces the 2.6.25 Linux Kernel 181
LinuxWatch writes "'It's been long promised, but there it is now,' began Linux creator Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.25 Linux kernel. He continued, 'special thanks to Ingo who found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned out to not be a regression at all, but an old bug that just had not been triggering as reliably before. That said, that was just the last particular regression fix I was holding things up for, and it's not like there weren't a lot of other fixes too, they just didn't end up being the final things that triggered my particular worries.' There were numerous changes in this revision of the OS. The origins of some of those fixes is detailed in Heise's brief history of this kernel update."
Re:Wonderful. More Stable. ... So? (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm not sure that X11 is so lacking anymore - the recent versions have been making some nice improvements, and it's still the only thing with that high of compatibility.
Re:Wonderful. More Stable. ... So? (Score:5, Interesting)
CIFS (Score:3, Interesting)
CAN support! Yay! (Score:2, Interesting)
If it doesn't, I bet it will not be long before someone implements one. And since CAN is used in pretty much every automation in modern cars, who knows. "An open firmware for your Passat", anyone?
calling a kernel a kernel (Score:3, Interesting)
No one runs "just a kernel" on their phone. Look at OpenMoko, they use GNU libc just like Debian and Fedora do.
Re:Wonderful. More Stable. ... So? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Wonderful. More Stable. ... So? (Score:3, Interesting)
That's precisely the point. In a competitive environment, X Windows has won out. Why? Because it's extremely hard to write anything as good, and even harder to write anything sufficiently better to persuade any significant number of users to switch.
Re:Black monolith (Score:1, Interesting)