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Kernel 2.4.12 Released
Whoops. A nasty bug affecting symlinks made it into 2.4.11, and Linus has ditched that "sorry excuse for a kernel" in favor of the new and improved 2.4.12. :) See the (short) changelog or list of mirrors, as usual.
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version x.y.odd_number aren't stable releases.
No, version x.odd_number.y is unstable. Once you have x.even_number, they're all supposed to be stable kernels.
My definition of a stable kernel is one that has been handed over to the stable kernel maintainer, Alan Cox.
The stable kernel has become ready for production usage once development has started somewhere else.
May I recommend this attitude to people who complain about the instability of the 2.4 series. It's called pragmatism.
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
Hey, i wrote it, and i don't get the joke :)
I agree this is an annoying bug, but to paraphrase a coversation between the comic book guy and Bart:
Comic Guy: Worst kernel EVER
Bart: Why do you get to complain? They've given you thousands of hours of entertainment for free?
Comic Guy:As a loyal [user], they owe me.
Admittedly, I'm probably off the actual text by a bit here, the point remain. Try not to be the Comic Book Guy when Linus makes one mistake.
----------------- "I have a bone to pick, and a few to break." - Refused -------------------
Ahhh that's nothing. How do you think windows got from 3.11 to 2000 in a little over 6 years?
I'll be more than glad to cut 'n paste all the supportive responses here into that one for you. No worries.
Christ. When it comes to Microsoft, you make it sound like downloading service packs twice a year and patches once a month is an impossible task for people to undertake, yet when it comes to Linux, you willingly download and compile buggy code on a regular basis?
Posting anonymously to preserve my karma as the mob mentality here can be a bit frightful. Doesn't seem to matter if the differing opinion is an insightful one: we keep things happy by making the dissenters disappear. Huzzah.
From the KML, as reported elsewere in this thread:
On the other hand, the good news is that I'll open 2.5.x RSN, just because Alan is so much better at maintaining things ;)
Linus
Either you alredy knew that, or you are a real cassandra. In the last case, would you mind give me some hints on the next horse race? :-)
Ciao
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FB
Actually... according to everything I have ever read about linux the unstable development tree is 2.odd.whatever. Everything in 2.even.whatever is called the "stable tree".
:-)
Close, but it's actually the 2.whatever.whatever that's the "unstable tree". The stable tree starts at "5.00.2195".
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
Yes, Linux should fire him and get someone who knows what they are doing to release code for free to the General Public.
errr wait..
The whole life span of 2.4.11 was less than 8 hours! Alan was probably asleep the whole time.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
they get released into the "stable" tree.
Perhaps, then, it can be said that they follow the "Slashdot" model of development: Post first and correct things (maybe) later.
Is your company running tools written by ma