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An anonymous reader writes "In a post to the kernel mailing list, Rob Landley, sitting in for the floating Linus, cracks the whip over what will be in Linux 3.0. His orders are on Linux and main."
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He's achieved a transcendental state now? What are the kernel people going to do when he finally ascends to Nirvana?
Cheers,
Ian
And 2.4.19 is STILL compiling on my 50 mhz box...
unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
i can't wait till Linux 3.11 for workgroups
Will it be Duke Nuke Forever 2.6 or Duke Nukem Forever 3.0 ?
I think that, in response to current marketing trends, Linux 3.0 should be given a 2-letter version id instead of a number.
How about:
Linux IS (For those unbelievers...)
Linux ME (friendlier, bloatier, used like a verb)
Linux XL (for those kernel with everything)
or
Linux ** (just take care of all the letter names at once)
- sig? who is this sig of which you speak?
Ok, lets all acknowledge the obvious cracks at 3.11 (like what happened with Windows). Let's sort of communally agree that we're not going to find 'em funny, before a really dumb thread enters the picture, okay?
Slashdot: Where people pretend to be twice as smart as they really are by behaving like children.
Screw the kernel, I want to hear more about these geek cruises!
Linux 3.0 < Windows 3.1
Netscape 7.0 > IE 6.0
"LinuxXP" or "LinuxYQ" may be better to stop this neverending battle.
Guess we know which kernel guru has started taking $ from Google!
Carousel is a lie!
You meant to type GNU/Linux, right?
Sincerely,
RMS
Linux ** (just take care of all the letter names at once)
If you only want to take care of two letter tags, shouldn't that be:
Linux ??
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
By the way, Linux 3.0 will officially be known as "Linux III: The Domination" and when they get around to Linux 4.0 it'll be "Linux 4: Citizens on Patrol"
No, * is for all acronyms. The second star is for fail-over/HA.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Of course there's long been a convention in Linux land that less stable development kernels have odd numbers like 2.1, 2.3 and 2.5, while even numbers denote the stable series meant for pedestrian users. [Although many could argue that the VM switch during 2.4 did not exactly belong to a stable series.]
Anyway, if we're going to have an odd number major version, then all I can say is
"Provided by the management for your protection."
What would be great would be if it automatically piped it to the screen, with some form of high contrast text, like white text against a blue background...
Linux .NET Professional Edition Second Edition Service Pack 3.
But I liked the 80's style. I haven't worn out my baggy denim jacket yet and my spike hanging in there as good as ever. On a sidenote, to you men with big bald spots, I've been told that a spike is one way to conceal a growing bald spot. Become a PHB now! I want my IIe back.
Screw LinuxXP. We need to sneak it in the back door of our shops. I think it should be LinuxKY.
Well, this is what some people really wish:
.NET
Internet Explorer.
GUI.
The Eternal Flat Desktop for dummies.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Solitaire.
Palladin
WYSINAWYG
WYGINAWYW
Easter Eggs
Make desktop "user ready". Forget the flame.
Forget the bugs, claim the features.
Add 100Kb EULA into the kernel itself.
Sell it and yourself to Bill Gates.
Rename it to Windows.
Sell it for $400 and threaten everyone who will not follow you.
Write a small text, anonymously authored - "Why I switched from Linux to Windows" and claim how your customers are deeply satisfied.
What Linus means is that the sum of the major and minor version numbers denote stability. Version 1.3 adds up to 4 which means that it is a stable branch, 2.1 is unstable because it adds to 3. In that case, 3.0 would be the first developmental release (probably a symlink to 2.5), while 3.1 is where the real action begins. Note that 3.1 happens to be the universally accepted branding for an unstable release as evidenced by another "operating system" durning that stage of development.
Bah! all you geeks are struggling to make the first gen BSOD. Look at Cowboyneal's article last friday
Posted by Cowboyneal on Sunday October 20, @11:16AM
from the yippee-new-windows-features! dept.
In a surprise announcement today, Microsoft President Steve Ballmer revealed that the Redmond based company will allow computer resellers and end-users to customize the appearance of the Blue Screen of Death (abbreviated BSOD), the screen that displays when the Windows operating system crashes.
The move comes as the result of numerous focus groups and customer surveys done by Microsoft. Thousands of Microsoft customers were asked, "What do you spend the most time doing on your computer?" A surprising number of respondents said, "Staring at a Blue Screen of Death". At 54 percent, it was the top answer, beating the second place answer "Downloading Pornography" by an easy 12 points.
"We immediately recognized this as a great opportunity for ourselves, our channel partners, and especially our customers." explained the excited Ballmer to a room full of reporters.
Immense video displays were used to show images of the new customizable BSOD screen side-by-side with the older static version. Users can select from a collection of "BSOD Themes", allowing them to instead have a Mauve Screen of Death or even a Paisley Screen of Death. Graphics and multimedia content can now be incorporated into the screen, making the BSOD the perfect conduit for delivering product information and entertainment to Windows users.
The Blue Screen of Death is by far the most recognized feature of the Windows (tm) operating system, and as a result, Microsoft has historically insisted on total control over its look-and-feel. This recent departure from that policy reflects Microsoft's recognition of the Windows desktop itself as the "ultimate information portal." By default, the new BSOD will be configured to show a random selection of Microsoft product information whenever the system crashes. Microsoft channel partners can negotiate with Microsoft for the right to customize the BSOD on systems they ship.
Major computer resellers such as Compaq, Gateway, and Dell are already lining up for premier placement on the new and improved BSOD.
Ballmer concluded by getting a dig in against the Open Source community. "This just goes to show that Microsoft continues to innovate at a much faster pace than open source. I have yet to see any evidence that Linux even has a BSOD, let alone a customizable one."
You mean the very logical method of dragging my floppy to the traschcan? That really doesn't make much sense.
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How could my server ever reach 1000 days of uptime with Linus throwing out new major kernel releases every two years? ;-)
Ok, take Sun's route for Java, name it as Linux 3 (or III) and continue to maintain it as 2.6 vice versa...