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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. Re:drill by furiousgeorge · · 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.

  2. Re:What A Waste! by dbarclay10 · · 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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  3. Re:What A Waste! by tempest303 · · 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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