Linux Development Kernel 2.5.18 Released

the_real_tigga writes: "Well, the day is almost over, and still today's release of version 2.5.18 of the Linux development kernel tree has not yet hit Slashdot. It is out, the official site is of course kernel.org, but be sure to check your local mirrors (usually www.country.kernel.org). Here is the long Changelog, major changes include suspend-to-RAM, more IDE and VFS fixes, and kbuild. Linux Weekly has the news too, and a summary of the changes."

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Go Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

Go Linux!

Slashdot Gripes 1.01

[egg troll]

- posters that spell Microsoft with a $ or spell it MicroCrap or something.
- posters that glorify a feature that Linux has that BSD or Solaris as had for years, and list this reason as the most important reason to switch over
- posters that say Slackware is better because "you have to compile all of the applications for yourself"
- Rob Malda's arrogance
- frequent spelling and grammar mistakes. I'm not talking something really obscure or a minor technicallity in English, either. I'm talking substituting "loose" for "lose" or "they're"/"their"/"there". Really easily corrected mistakes. Any halfway decent fifth grader could pick up on these errors.
- people that post a mirror to a site that has been Slashdotted, which normally would be nice, but is hosted on a cable modem that is soon Slashdotted
- page widening
- random quashing of posts that don't agree with the Slashdot mindset.
- really annoying sigs
- unhumorous jokes that have to be "explained" to the audience. If your joke has to be explained, it's not funny.
- "BOYCOTT RIAA" and "I can't wait to see Episode II!" all in the same day.
- Rob Malda's childish obsession with legos.
- the Slashdot crew doesn't have any other jobs other than Slashdot, yet it seems it was better run when Rob was running it on a Multia in college in his spare time.
- the "page limit" with the subscription.
- The expulsion of Signal 11.
- ranting, paranoid articles whenever there APPEARS to be a GPL violation, with no verification whatsoever. Just a bunch of ranting posts about freedom.
- for that matter, no verification of articles at all. I wish I could count the number of times Slashdot's been scammed on two hands, but it's been so many.
- April Fool's articles on Slashdot. THESE AREN'T FUNNY. I wasn't going to explain, but whatever. Okay, let's say you run a website. On April Fool's, you post, say, ONE or TWO fake pieces of news along with the real news. This way, some people are fooled. By posting ALL fake news and "jokes", no one falls for the prank.
- no one buys Loki's games, but there is a big mystery when they go out of business.
- no NNTP frontend to Slashdot.
- direct links to bugzilla
- continuing tightening of the "troll filters" to the point where even normal posts are rejected by some stupid criteria
- self righteous posters who want everything under the sun to be Open Source, even though they have never written a line of code in their life
- whenever an article on a new scripting language is posted, all of the C users chime in "but it's not as fast as C". shortly after, all the assembly users chime in "assembly is the fastest". predictably, right after that, someone says "why don't we all just use machine code?"
- anecdotes on your grandmother using Linux to check her email and whatnot. this ALONE proves that Linux is better than Windows for ALL uses.
- cult-like devotion to Linux. reserve your fanaticism for a church, not a kernel.
- someone is not less of a person if they don't use Unix.
- posters who think that BeOS is having "a bad moment" and will surely rise to defeat all other operating systems
- posters who think Palm will open the source to BeOS for no reason at all
- people who think that Amiga isn't dead. The new virtual Amiga doesn't count.
- people who think that OS/2 isn't dead. 'Ecomstation' doesn't count.
- people who bemoan the loss of OS/2 while thinking it was a big conspiracy, completely IGNORING the fact that IBM did not advertise. we all KNOW OS/2 was technically superior to Windows at the time. You don't have to bedazzle us with tales of "running all the latest Windows and DOS applications aside native OS/2 apps". We've heard it all before. We know it WAS better.
- people who think that this is the last year ever we'll ever have to hire C++ programmers, because as we all know, Java is going to "kill it off"
- this is a good one. Completely expositionary articles such as "Surprised by Weath" in which ESR BRAGGED about how rich he was and how he wasn't going to give us any money. NO SIR.
- bitchslapping
- benchmarks that pit, say, Linux (lastest revision) against FreeBSD 3.0 or something old and useless.
- how banner ads for the site only link to other OSDN sites
- any links to nytimes.com
- when someone writes a comment with ^H to signify deletions
- the moderation $rtbl
- meta moderation
- people that spell Red Hat as "RedCrap"

Re:Slashdot Gripes 1.01

[Anonymous Coward]

- posters that say Slackware is better because "you have to compile all of the applications for yourself"

Your gripes are already outdated. Everyone knows Gentoo has replaced slackware for the same reasons.

I'd submit this as a patch diff, but I'm too lazy and know you'd do it.

Re:Slashdot Gripes 1.01

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree with you on every single point. Keep on posting.

Re:Slashdot Gripes 1.01

[Anonymous Coward]

I defy you to find a joke on which you don't have to spend an extra comment explaining to someone on here.

Re:Slashdot Gripes 1.01

[Anonymous Coward]

Okay, here goes. Two nuns walk into a bar...

Re:Slashdot Gripes 1.01

[Anonymous Coward]

funny, yet so true...keep up the good work, egg troll!!

Take a Lesson from John Bonham

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a 1978 Kerrang article in which he stated: "Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution. The basic reason why all previous revolutionary struggles in rock-n-roll achieved so little was their failure to unite with real friends in order to attack real enemies. A heavy riff is the guide of the masses, and no guitar solo ever succeeds when the heavy riff leads them astray. To ensure that we will definitely achieve success in our revolution and will not lead the masses astray, we must pay attention to uniting with our real friends in order to attack our real enemies. To distinguish real friends from real enemies, we must make a general analysis of the rockin' status of the various classes in rock-n-roll society and of their respective attitudes towards the revolution.

No wonder AC/DC sucked so bad after he died!

Note to moderator

[Anonymous Coward]

You just modded up a guy named 'egg troll'. I don't think you'll be moderating again!

But thanks for helping the cause =)

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Re:Is this necessary?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. It is necessary. It is 'news for nerds'. If you are not a nerd, then you should subscribe to non-nerd-announce.

Re:Is this necessary?

[Anonymous Coward]

One night when I was at this party, I met this girl. We were on our way
upstairs to fuck. She went first, and I stopped to brag to one of my
friends about getting laid by this totally hot chick! I went upstairs
and opened the bedroom door. There was a girl laying on the bed, passed
out, so I took off her pants and started to fuck her. After a while, my
friends came to bug me about getting laid, and they turned on the
light. Everyone stopped because we all realized that i was fucking my
sister.
How do I look her in the face now? We don't talk and everyone still
makes fun of us for that night.

http://www.shopping-nice.com/video/Daniel_Pearl.mp

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.shopping-nice.com/video/Daniel_Pearl.mp g

Re:2.2.21

[LinuxHam]

2.2.21 is out (for those who refuse/can't upgrade)

Funny you should mention that. I actually have a box that kernel panics on boot on all 2.4 kernels. Is there any way I can capture anything useful from the dump to send off somewhere? I suppose I could put the console on serial and capture it with minicom on another box, but are there extended diagnostics I can turn on to maximize the dumpage? It fails pretty early in the boot process.

Re:Is this necessary?

[LinuxInDallas]

fertile? great, anyone here with fertility problems should just expose themselves...that will fix the problem.