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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. 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. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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

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    http://cincyboys.blogspot.com/ Everything Cincinnati. Including the word 'Finnih'
  7. 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
  8. 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. . .