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Last 2.5.x Linux Kernel Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the beginning-of-the-end dept.

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."

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  1. Chop chop! by Faust7 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    don't hold your breath about seeing the actual 2.6 for a while; there are still many areas that need work.

    Actually, I'd much rather he just quickly loaded it with as many features as possible and released it forthwith under the assumption the security would hold together.

    What?

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  2. old nws by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ive been using debnia 3 for 1 yr now and you hav articel bout 2.6 ...

  3. Article Text in case of Slashdotting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Linus Torvalds and Anal Cox made a joint press release today. In an effort to save time, Linux 2.5.75 will be renamed 2.6.75, to reflect how mature they assume the code is. "We don't feel like bothering with all that 'pre-' crap, so we thought we'd save some time and just jump right into 2.6" reasonned Torvalds. Anal Cox elaborated that "when MS Windows went frm 3.11 staight to 95, they really left us behind. Now that they're at 2003, we've really got to get our shit together to catch up".

  4. Yeah? well what about by gotr00t · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I know someone who uses Windows 98. Since the number 98 is higher that 10.2, 9, and 2.6 put together, that must be one kickass operating system.