Kernel 2.5.3 Released

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Posted by michael on Wednesday January 30, 2002 @12:34PM 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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drill by geekoid · 2002-01-30 12:35 · Score: 3, Insightful

Not everyone know the drill, perhaps a link to a step by step instructions on how to do it should be included. You don't want to sacare off the new people, do ya?

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1. Re:drill by furiousgeorge · 2002-01-30 12:36 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  New people shouldn't be upgrading their kernel...... ESPECIALLY to an unstable development one.
  
  If you don't know how to do it you shouldn't be doing it anyway.
What A Waste! by Lethyos · 2002-01-30 12:38 · Score: 0, Insightful

Really, I still do not understand what the point of patch-release announcements are on /.! This what freshmeat.net is for. This is not major news - this is trivial for everyone except those who are experimenting with the new kernel or developing for it. That's a very tiny subset of the /. population. If you're having a slow night, try posting one of the dozens if not hundreds of valuable stories that are rejected every day!

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1. Re:What A Waste! by dbarclay10 · 2002-01-30 12:48 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Really, I still do not understand what the point of patch-release announcements are on /.! This what freshmeat.net is for. This is not major news - this is trivial for everyone except those who are experimenting with the new kernel or developing for it. That's a very tiny subset of the /. population.
  
  No, Slashdot is what Slashdot is. No more, no less. You have some preconceived notion of what Slashdot *should* be. If you want something else, go somewhere else, because SLASHDOT ALWAYS HAS AND ALWAYS WILL(probably) REPORT ON SOFTWARE. Yes, even patchlevel releases. Instead of trying to tell Slashdot what you want, and the rest of the people what you think they *should* want, how about you go and find a site which caters to your tastes and your interests?
  
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2. Re:What A Waste! by tempest303 · 2002-01-30 12:52 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Really, I still do not understand what the point of patch-release announcements are on /.!
  
  I have to agree, but only because this is a *testing* kernel. For all stable releases (ie: 2.4.x for now), I think announcments of new versions is a cool thing - it allows the much much larger base of linux 2.4.x users (as compared to 2.5.x) to discuss the new features/caveats/etc of the latest stable kernel.
  
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Re:Using it? by Woko · 2002-01-30 12:57 · Score: 2, Insightful

I'm still nervous about using 2.4 - Its really irritating to find production environments going down because the VM subsystem decided to kill mysqld

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Re:Well by glwtta · 2002-01-30 13:07 · Score: 3, Insightful

So that 2.6 isn't "beta" when it's released ;)

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Re:Waaah!!! it's a kernel patch Waaaahhh!!! by GigsVT · 2002-01-30 13:41 · Score: 3, Insightful

Well, this is a Linux News site, whether anyone wants to deny that or not.

But anyway, it might be better if they put kernel releases into their own topic, so people could exclude it, at least it would limit bitching, and only take 5 minutes to implement.

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Re:Patches!! by jsse · 2002-01-30 14:36 · Score: 3, Insightful

Ok ok ok - we all know that kernel.org's got some cashflow problems, so people PLEASE use the mirrors and patches!!

I agree, but downloading from kernel.org is just too convenient...I know 90% of people would feel the same. :)

Btw, while the mirrors are official sites, why couldn't kernel.org automatically redirectly the requests to their mirrors according to clients' origin? I'm sure the cost of running kernel.org would be significantly lowered.

Technically it's feasible because many people has already done this for commercial servers. Is there any difficulties(political? Legal? Ownership?) make it impossible?

Just wonder.
Re:Using it? by Sivar · 2002-01-30 18:57 · Score: 2, Insightful

Production environments? That's what FreeBSD is for. >

Seriously though (and I was serious), most companies with experiences IT people aren't going to use anything that hasn't been thoroughly tested internally (like the latest releases of the kernel that have the new VM), but then most companies probably wouldn't use MySQL in a production environment either...though I would argue that it is more solid than most operating systems.

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Re:Using it? by Sivar · 2002-01-30 19:00 · Score: 2, Insightful

When you choose to play with bleeding edge software, you have to live with the caveats that come with that usage.

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Re:Using it? by fyonn · 2002-01-30 23:00 · Score: 2, Insightful

hang on, I thought that 2.5 was bleeding edge and 2.4 *was* the latest stable release tree? should everyone be using 2.2 still?

dave