Last 2.5.x Linux Kernel Released

Kourino writes "Today on LKML, Linus released 2.5.75, which he said will be "the last 2.5.x kernel from me", and that he and Andrew Morton are going to start a 2.6-pre series soon. While this certainly does mean things could get interesting soon, don't hold your breath about seeing the actual 2.6 for a while; there are still many areas that need work. This essentially means that the development branch is going into maintenance mode, and new features probably won't get in after this point. Changes of note in 2.5.75 include a merge of the anticipatory scheduler from Andrew Morton's -mm tree and updates from several architectures."

Comments

Re:Hopefully it will be more stable then 2.4x in s

[Kourino]

Debian uses old versions of everything. Debian is very conservative about what goes into its stable branch, which is good, except that you have things like known broken versions of software sitting around on your system unless you run testing or unstable.

From what I've heard, the 2.5 kernel looks to be a lot better on SMP, both in terms of stability and scalability with number of processors. This isn't something I've tracked much, though, since I only have UP hardware (for now). (What I'd really love to find is an old dual-proc EV56 or even EV67 machine for not too much money ... sigh. Two testing grounds in one machine!)

And, Linux is most stable on x86 hardware because that's what most people run it on. Unfortunately, there just aren't as many people running Linux ppc, or the Alpha port, or Linux on Sparc V9, which means less testers and less developers. It would be nice to see the other architectures better off, but ...

Re:Party pooper

[Overly Critical Guy]

Because you're ignorant to think changes occur only when they have visible effects.

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