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.)"

Comments

Re:this is an enterprise ready os?

[brer_rabbit]

There are a couple of extremely stable kernels out there...

Yeah, and we'd like to know which ones!

Re:this is an enterprise ready os?

[Pope Slackman]

There are a couple of extremely stable kernels out there...

There sure are. Here's one and here's another.

C-X C-S

But what *I* want to know is...

[Aexia]

whether the Linux underwear for this version has been released yet.

Re:Allow me

[dead_penguin]

"Why is this news? This isn't freshmeat! Why don't you post every time Windows has a tiny update?"

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 /. 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!