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

Party pooper

[smallpaul]

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?

Re:Easiest way to fix the bugs

[Sabalon]

C'mon...it's easy.

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, ..., profit! :)

Re:Ugh, another newbie

[akedia]

You, sir, are the newbie. You've been trolled.