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Kernel 2.4.17 Out

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

ThatComputerGuy writes "Linux kernel 2.4.17 is final, with a lot of fixes/updates. Check out the huge changelog. If you're on a desktop machine, you should try using RML's preempt patch, it definitely helps response times."

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  1. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Big deal. I don't have to upgrade my Win98 box. It works perfectly fine and, with sharing disabled, it is perfectly secure.

  2. Re:Already? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is nuts! How can this post be offtopic? Oobotomized Linux drones, no wait, lobotomized and castrated Linux zealots. Yeah, that must be it. Fuck you, slashdot.

  3. sucks by haggar · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux, that is.

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    1. Re:sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      No. You mom sucks.......She let me cum in her mouth too, which was mighty nice of her since she said she NEVER lets you cum in her mouth. Man she sucks like a damn vacum! I put it in her but too, she really likes that!! more so when she gets to suck a cock at the same time! Oh man I'm getting hard just thinking about fucking your mom. I think I'll go let the bitch suck me off again. Anyone got change for a five??? PS you mom looks sooooo hot with a little dribble of my cum sliding out of her mouth while she is still holding my member.

  4. A fool and his money will soon part... by nbahi15 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    with a Microsoft product.

  5. Wait a sec!!!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What the hell is a kernel?? isnin't that popcorn before it pops? I tried putting 2.4.17 popcorn kernels in my computer but I think I measured wrong and now my computer is broke!!!!! I don't get it? now I can't get on the AOL (which is the internet) To download the porno~!!!!! Goatsex goatsex goatsex Goatsex goatsex goatsex Goatsex goatsex goatsex Goatsex goatsex goatsex Goatsex goatsex goatsex

  6. Re:What is "preemtive" for ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    > That thud you just heard was all the former BeOS users throwing their PC's out the window...

    FUCK YOU, and the OS you rode in on.

    BeOS and my hardware still work just fine, thank you very much, you dumb@$$.