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New Features For 2.5 Linux Kernel
An anonymous person writes "The current development version of the Linux kernel is 2.5. At the recent Linux kernel summit, it was agreed to have a "feature freeze" on this kernel by October 31, 2002. Here's a story looking at what's left to be merged before the freeze. Projects most likely to make it into 2.5 (and thus be a part of the next stable kernel, 2.6), include: the reverse mapping VM, the Linux Security Module framework, User Mode Linux and support for filesystems greater than 2TB."
Why's he "[A]n anonymous person" and not "an An Anonymous Coward"?
/. editor knows this person's identity?
Should I infer something about his identity from this? Should I infer that this means the
Should I cue the X-Files theme song?
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
I keep trying to take the damn floppy drive out of the various systems I deal with, and I keep having some rediculous reason where I *need* to put the horror back in. It's bizzare. Try it: take a machine that hasn't had a floppy inserted into it in years. Remove the drive. It is a physical LAW that the machine will require the use of a floppy drive within three days.
And my goodness: is there any brand of floppies left that doesn't have at least three dead in a box of 10?
support for filesystems greater than 2TB
Ah, good! This has been a major stumbling block for me. I've been writing a guide and I hit the 2TB ceiling. My target market is hitchhikers.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
The kernel developers know what a feature freeze is. There's no quotation marks around it in the referenced article. The quotation marks in the slashdot headline came from an "anonymous person" somewhere, and the slashdot "editors" decided to leave it there because they are "editors", not editors.
#include <usual lecture about reading the article before commenting.h>