Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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?

7 of 371 comments (clear)

  1. Lame by susano_otter · · Score: 0, Troll

    Goddammit! Why do the editors keep posting inane stories about some questionable hobbyists' OS? News for Nerds? Maybe. Stuff that matters? Certainly not! More news about habitable planets, junkyard wars, and stem cell research, please!

    --

    Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.

  2. Doesn't mention it, but ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is absent from the ChangeLog but 2.5.3 contains Robert Love's (yes, the preemptive guy) BKL removal from llseek. It's a scalability fix - we have an 8-way machine at work and it has increased our data system throughput by nearly 15%! We must lseek too much heh but it works eh.

    I have some friend's and they say 2.5.3 has much reduced latency with preemptive kernel, since removing the BKL would allow more preemption.

    Don't know why it is not in the ChangeLog, but it is a good thing. Love should do one for 2.4 too.

    ben

  3. Re:Kernel development by Matthew+Luckie · · Score: 1, Troll
    linux unstable/development (2.odd) == windows beta
    linux "beta" == windows gold
    linux stable == windows after 3 service packs
    GNU/Linux wookies are still living in the unstable days of Windows 95.

    Just keep hoping that Microsoft make security blunders or GNU/Linux will have to try and compete on usability, and you really don't want that.

  4. Re:Oh come on... by GC · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually - Mr Anonymous Coward,

    I'm already at 50 karma, a situation that you'll certainly never accomplish in your life, that karma means nothing to me anymore.

    To prove it - I post this at 2, to give the moderators some extra work.

    Please mod me down to -1.

    Thanks you complete arsehole.

  5. Re:Oh come on... by GC · · Score: 1, Troll

    bing bing bing! bing!!

    mod this down to -1 - please.

    oh karma to burn... it burns well you know.

  6. Re:Oh come on... by GC · · Score: 2, Troll

    Why not???

  7. Usability. by saintlupus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anyone using 2.5 for anything except testing?

    Yeah, it's on all my production machines. I've got millions of dollars riding on it.

    Of course not, you jackass. I know this is Slashdot, where untested hardware, piss poor drivers written in a drunken fury, and bleeding edge technology with no perceivable benefit are kewl, but I don't think even the sweaty fanboys in this place are dumb enough to put a 2.5.x kernel on anything important.

    --saint