Linux 2.4.18 Released

Posted by michael on Monday February 25, 2002 @09:30AM from the power-of-pure-penguins dept.

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.)"

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what to expect now by Bender+Unit+22 · 2002-02-25 10:21 · Score: 0, Troll

what to expect now.

1 post to a domain starting with goa...
2 posts claiming *BSD is DEAD! (didn't see that it was a linux post)
3 posts complaning about every single version getting frontpage attention on /.
4 posts containing a cut-n-paste from changelog "to avoid" the /. effect and getting max. karma
5 posts doing the same thing as above but gets marked redundant.
6 F1RS7 P0ST's
7 posts saying that they are downloading it right now
8 posts claimin that they have already downloaded it
9 posts starting with "I know I am getting modded down for this offtopic post but", and then get modded up.
10 posts excited about this being another nail in M$'s coffin..