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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."
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Linux is finally dead!! Now can we all just GET ALONG!?
mod this up foolz
Use a real OS like the new GoatseOS which has been developed for 5 years at the Utah Institute of Applied Fagotry.
Yeah, such as the file system, the lack of apps, the seg faults, the blue screens, the lack of apps, the drivers (there aren't any), the windowing system, the lack of apps (there aren't any), etc., etc.
Welcome to the world of open source, where your victims, er I mean users, are your testers!
According to this story, Linux Torvlads has still not distanced himself from Usama ben Laden, with whom he is said to have enjoyed a homosexual relationship.
l00nix, you fuck.
Be advised, the folling comments are sure to be full of version number jokes between windows products and linux. A dead horse gets another whack.
Seriously, guys, it wasn't funny the first time...
Yawn. What a non-event. I can't tell the difference between 2.5.75 and 2.5.1 or 2.4.anything. Does the regular user really care about keeping up with the kernel of the week? They're all unstable anyways. That's why 5 out of the top 10 web servers on the internet run FreeBSD. It's what the people who really know and love Unix run.
Two words: more cock.
we'll see the 2.6 kernel in Mandrake 23.2 in the year 2019..
I can't wait!!
Doesn't it seem strange that of all the open source projects with constant upgrades and lots of user visible changes, the slashdot community gets all excited about a kernel? A kernel! What difference is this going to make to your day to day life, compared to a new version of your mail program or language runtime or desktop environment or editor?
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Linux fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac running Linux (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Mac running Linux, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac running Linux that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Linux addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use linux over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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What's a kernel?
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Yes, I was trashing Linux. Linux is a cornerstone in the Perverted Homosexual Agenda, and you all need to wake up to this. Unix-based OSes are pure faggotry - you cannot deny this. WINDOWS XP PRO ROCKS THE HIZZOUSE! WWW.FUCKEDCOMPANY.COM, MOTHERFUCKERS!
C'mon...it's easy.
..., profit! :)
We ship it broken (but earlier than expected), we come up with some crappy ass program that people can use to upgrade it, gather all the info on their computer,
You, sir, are the newbie. You've been trolled.
I breaks my heart to read about another crippling bombshell hitting the beleaguered Linux committee. Even Linus himself admits he's giving up on Linux 2.5, and according to the Netcraft survey, hardly any production servers ever used 2.5 at all.
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I have some tinfoil hats going cheap. Based on your paranoid ramblings about trolls I figure I can put you down for a couple of truck loads of those, and a box of Mind Control Ray Detectors {TM}