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Linux 2.4.18 Released
Kourino writes: "Marcelo
announced the release of 2.4.18 a couple hours ago after 4 release candidates, but the tree marked 2.4.18 on kernel.org is
missing the -rc4 patch that finally made the kernel releasable. Basically, what's marked as 2.4.18 is really -rc3, and what's marked as -rc4 is what should have become 2.4.18. According to Marcelo on #kernelnewbies, most users won't be affected, but people on SPARC systems should definitely grab 2.4.18-rc4. Your best bet is probably just to get 2.4.17 and patch to 2.4.18-rc4. Seems 2.4 is destined to be an "interesting" release branch ^_^; For the new release, head over to your favorite kernel.org mirror. (Marcelo will set things straight in 2.4.19-pre1.)"
I want the new MS OS killer... 2.4.666
Yeah, and we'd like to know which ones!
There are a couple of extremely stable kernels out there...
There sure are. Here's one and here's another.
C-X C-S
whether the Linux underwear for this version has been released yet.
"Why is this news? This isn't freshmeat! Why don't you post every time Windows has a tiny update?"
/. seems to be so current that it gets posted long before there even is a fix. Linux bug-type news seems to have to wait until a whole new kernel gets released. I want equality, damnit!
We're already one step ahead of you! If you look around, you'll see most of the comparable windows stories are about bugs, problems and vulnerabilities. Windoes news here on
It's only software!
You could have mentioned some of XP's other problems too. I have a test partition with XP pro on it and have not run into this particular issue yet. I hope I never do. Makes a crash a little more serious.
Then everyone would bitch and whine, like they did when Linux released a kernel three days after the last.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Yep, now I know what kernel I'll be running on Debian Stable in 2005...
Imagine that it's 1983, and I decided that I wanted to filter out everything that wasn't of particular interest to me at that time.
Now, jump ahead to 2002. I would have missed all the great leaps of the past 20 years. I wouldn't even have a clue that I would want a beowulf cluster of Commodore 64's! I might even post a comment like this to Ask Slashdot: "Hello Slashdot, I was in a restaurant the other day and I overheard some people laughing hysterically about something called Amiga. It sounded really fun. Doesn anyone know if I can buy one?" Oh, I would have been just like Rip Van Winkle if I had managed to filter out everything that wasn't of interest to me.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.