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Linux Kernel 2.5.8 Released

Posted by timothy on from the or-did-it-slip-out dept.

green pizza writes: "Linux Kernel 2.5.8 has been relased. Major improvements include readahead cache tweaks and support for hot-swap PCI on certain IBM machines." Here's the changelog; if you want to experiment with the bleeding edge, check out the list of mirrors provided by kernel.org.

2 of 17 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Helloooooo? by NWT · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well where's the problem? They do their best to satisfy everyone's needs ... what if you had such a machine? were you still unhappy about this? Another point is that they try to improve linux support on bigger machines, which are often IBM servers ...

    If you're right, noone replies ...

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  2. Patch Incorporation Rate by 4of12 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, these BitKeeper logs are pretty lengthy.

    I've always been partial to the multiple one-liner summaries, a la Alan Cox.

    I wonder if Linus has always devoured and spit out this many patches for new kernel revisions or whether I'm just seeing an artifact of BitKeeper?

    Could it be argued that kernel development is moving faster as a result of Linus adopting some kind of source code management system? I know Grandpa Eric Raymond would be pleased if that were the case:)

    [Just hoping that 2.6 comes out faster than 2.4...]

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