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Kernel 2.5.3 Released

Posted by michael on from the we-don't-need-no-steenkin'-patches dept.

cybercyst writes: "You know the drill... Lets go hit those servers!" As usual, see kernel.org for the download or the changelog. Anyone using 2.5 for anything except testing?

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  1. Using it? by SilentChris · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Anyone using 2.5 for anything except testing?"

    Are you kidding me? I'm using it to browse the internet right n-

    1. Re:Using it? by inerte · · Score: 4, Funny

      Please install module think-2.45 beta-release, compiling from source with libraries gcc 2.55, xterminal 0.14 without anti-alias fonts, then apt-get latest irony-5.76, not 5.67 (because conflicts with terms-1.0009.56b while long_numbers-11.5674.678-179zb processes). Should you /.make while no mission-critical PID runs, and convergence-5.888huhuljlkvjsafdmnf.tgz is disable with --no-nothing, run in /usr/bin install from /usr/home, and as root.

      That's why, sometimes installing Linux software is worse then launching the Holy Grail.

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      Buy a Nintendo DS Lite
    2. Re:Using it? by Pope+Slackman · · Score: 2, Funny

      rofl, u assume someone is using ms just cos they dont like linux? thats kind of egocentric aint it?

      Of course not! Everyone knows there are only two operating systems in existance, linux (may Allah bless it's name), and Windows.

      Do you need to be sent to a re-education camp?

      C-X C-S

  2. New Poll! by dbretton · · Score: 4, Funny

    Number of Maintainer Patches Dropped By Linus in 2.5.3:

    5
    10
    30
    69
    CowboyNeal!

  3. Kernel development by Metrollica · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why does the kernel go through stable and then unstable forks? Can't it always be a stable build, like with Windows?

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    --Metrollica
  4. Do you know what Operating System I want? by Burritos · · Score: 2, Funny

    I want MovieOS! You know MovieOS! It's the operating system used in such movies as Hackers. Where.. you know, you hack into a machine and your face appears on the computer! When does MovieOS become available for public release?

  5. Aunts and Mirrors by Jacek+Poplawski · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I just stopped using Windows and now you tell me to use Mirrors?" - said Aunt Tillie, just before compiling 2.5.3 kernel.

    1. Re:Aunts and Mirrors by dagoalieman · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Mirror Mirror on the wall,
      who's the fair.."

      **crack**

      "Darn.. must have been unstable..."

      Sorry.. had to.. You may flog me now..

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      We don't need no Net Explorer We don't need no Thought control
  6. Patches? by You+Are+A+Dumbass · · Score: 1, Funny

    I got yer patches right here!

  7. Re:Future of Linux kernel by BasharTeg · · Score: 4, Funny

    > 2.4.xx Current stable release series. (Well, almost current.)

    (Well, almost stable.)

    Can't argue with the term -series- though.

  8. Re:drill by sabinm · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you don't know how to do it you shouldn't be doing it anyway

    Riiiight. That's probably why you're still a virgin

    --
    http://cincyboys.blogspot.com/ Everything Cincinnati. Including the word 'Finnih'
  9. Well by /dev/trash · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since most of 2.4.x has been pretty much beta why should I go to 2.5 for testing????

  10. Re:probably will be slashdotted - here's the chang by Com2Kid · · Score: 2, Funny

    "--
    Ask me about Loom(tm)"

    Loom was a great game my Lucas Arts I do believe. I may have a copy of it sitting around here someplace. It was a fantasy adventure game that was based upon a magical system that used musical notes.

    The game was quite short, under a day to complete, but even in 1994 or so (long after its release) it was still capible of astrounding people with how nice it looked and how great it sounded. This is despite using only (as I recall. . .) MIDI sound. Ultimately Loom was more a work of art then it was a game, but it was one great work of art.

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  11. Hitting Servers? A warning from Monty Python by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Lets go hit those servers!"

    Hitting a server is not a good idea. Hit them too hard and you will break something important and the server will cease to function properly.

    The once lively server will be dead. It won't be resting, it'll be stone dead. It'll have passed on. It'll be no more. It will cease to be!

    It'll have expired and gone to meet its maker. It'll be a stiff. Bereft of life, it'll rest in peace. If it wasn't for the fact that it had been mounted to a rack it'll be pushing up the daisies!

    Its processing cycles will be history. It'll be off the twig. It will have kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!

    IT WILL BE AN EX-SERVER!

    Oh yeah, the sysadmin will be pissed at you too.

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    "Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
  12. Re:drill by Webmonger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your sig is especially appropriate for that post :-)

    It's time to let your children compile devel kernels. It's time to let the bed bugs bite. . .