Linus Says Pre-2.6 is Coming

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Posted by michael on Friday July 4, 2003 @07:07AM from the release-early-release-often-ha-ha-ha-ha dept.

gomoX writes "As seen on C|Net , Linus has announced that the pre-2.6 series will be starting in early July. Despite not having been able to meet the release goal for 2.6 in June 2003, the next stable version is not as far away as you may think. You can take your guess based on the fact there was a 9 month period between first test version of 2.4 and the official release of 2.4.0 on January 2001."

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New Name for New Linux by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-04 07:23 · Score: 5, Funny

not to be nitpicky or anything, but technically, shouldn't future versions of linux be referred to as GNU/SCO?
Re:What have I got to look forward to? by mhesseltine · 2003-07-04 07:25 · Score: 5, Funny

Linux Trace Trollkit (LTT): http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204 .1/0832.html

I know it's a typo, but that would make slashdot much more interesting, wouldn't it?

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Re:What have I got to look forward to? by gotem · 2003-07-04 07:26 · Score: 5, Funny

more lines of code from SCO
Why 9 months? by Gzip+Christ · 2003-07-04 07:28 · Score: 5, Funny

You can take your guess based on the fact there was a 9 month period between first test version of 2.4 and the official release of 2.4.0 on January 2001.
You might think that this was due to the birth of Linus' daughter Patricia. However, Linus actually spent those nine months cutting and pasting our code into the Linux kernel (there's so much of it, which is why it took him so long). Also, I am Patricia's real father.
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not a day too soon by Trepidity · 2003-07-04 07:35 · Score: 5, Funny

It'll be nice when it finally comes out, because I'll be able to point people doing audio work to Linux. Right now I have to say "well, Linux is better than Windows for this, but only if you apply the low-latency, pre-emptible kernel, and variable HZ (with HZ set to 1000) patches," which is a bit more involved than most people who are just doing audio work want to deal with. Once 2.6.x comes out I can just point them to the stock kernel.

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Re:Road trip, here comes memory lane by tuba_dude · 2003-07-04 08:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Tell us more grandpa! Tell us about the time you wrestled and maintained 8 AIX servers single-handedly from your homebuilt Linux box! Or about the time Linus got lost and asked you for directions and you went on a whirlwind big-city adventure!

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Re:Oh yeah? Well, I'm on 2.5.75, buddy! by ghum · 2003-07-04 08:27 · Score: 4, Funny

t my mouse speed in gnome was sped up by about 10x over 2.4

great news! 900% speedup from Linux kernel 2.4 to 2.5.75
Re:What the heck?! by darc · 2003-07-04 12:37 · Score: 4, Funny

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