Linux 2.4.0-prerelease is Released

Mark Bobak writes "2.4.0 should be ready soon. 2.4.0-test12 has been superceded by a new release, and it's not a testxx. It's 2.4.0-prerelease. Can't wait for the real thing....I can almost taste it! ;-) Available, of course, at kernel.org" And happy new years to everyone else. Hopefully holiday traffic will be light enough that we can all share the bandwidth to the mirrors. I shall download while I watch the Iron Chef marathon :)

Comments

Nope, this is it.

[epaulson]

Here's the text of Linus' message (slighly edited to get around the "Lameness filter", which itself is pretty lame):

Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and the best I can do is make a prerelease.

There's a 2.4.0-prerelease out there, and this is basically it. I want people to test it for a while, and I want to give other architectures the chance to catch up with some of the changes, but read my lips: no more recounts. There is no "prerelease1", to become "prerelease2" and so on.

One thing other architectures will want to catch up with is the changes to handle 2GHz+ machines, which due to overflow issues caused "loops_per_sec" to become "loops_per_jiffy". And some architectures have not had much chance to synchronize with me due to other fires to put out.

Give it your worst. After you recover from being hung-over, of course.

Linus

This can't be!

[LinuxGeek]

Vaporware that really exists? What will "industry analysts" complain about now?? :)

Re:So is this the only prerelease?

[bero-rh]

Linus said there probably wouldn't be a 2.4.0-prerelease2 -- so I personally am looking forward to running 2.4.0-prerelease2-test13-pre7-ac2. ;)

Linus' explanation

[bconway]

Can be found on Linux Today here. It includes an explanation of what's changed since 2.4.0-test12, what to expect for the immediate future, and a Happy New Year!