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Linux v2.6 Begins Testing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the brace-for-destruction dept.

xose quotes Linus from the kernel list: "the naming should be familiar - it's the same deal as with 2.4.0. One difference is that while 2.4.0 took about 7 months from the pre1 to the final release, I hope (and believe) that we have fewer issues facing us in the current 2.6.0. But very obviously there are going to be a few test-releases before the real thing. The point of the test versions is to make more people realize that they need testing and get some straggling developers realizing that it's too late to worry about the next big feature. I'm hoping that Linux vendors will start offering the test kernels as installation alternatives, and do things like make upgrade internal machines, so that when the real 2.6.0 does happen, we're all set." You all know what to do ;) Update: 07/14 17:49 GMT by S : OverNeith writes "Joe Pranevich has done it again! He's written another summary document on what to expect in the new and upcoming 2.6 Kernel!"

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  1. version numbers are worthless. by Comsn · · Score: -1, Troll

    how about info on new bugfixes and new hardware support, or new filesystems... why just have a version number in the story?

    this is worse than those AOL commercials. look! aol 9 is out! wow!

    1. Re:version numbers are worthless. by chef_raekwon · · Score: -1, Troll

      moderators, mod parent properly. this is 'Funny' or 'insightful', not 'troll'. You may not like what has been said, but it has a volume of truth to it.

      --
      We're like rats, in some experiment! -- George Costanza
    2. Re:version numbers are worthless. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      There is a link in the story. Had you clicked it, you might have seen some of the information you are looking for. I am only guessing, as I don't read stories before commenting.

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  3. Re:How did 2.4 go? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    2.6.0: PROFIT!!

  4. How is this offtopic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He is talking about his "alternative lifestyle" on a Linux (the OS of the "alternative lifestyle") article.

    His post was 100% on topic.

    You mods need to out yourselves.

  5. More crack smoking by the moderators by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    who's been smoking crack, the moderator's been smoking crack. How is something overrated when it's never been rated? Fuckwit.

    1. Re:More crack smoking by the moderators by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Awww fuck it. Cmdrtaco can't hear us through all the penises stuck in his ears. slushdoit continues to fall into the abyss of homoerotic self worship.

      One of these days, he's going to shoot his idiot mouth off to the wrong person in public, and that person is going to put him in his place.

  6. Re:Clear this up for me by jo42 · · Score: 0, Troll


    Give his sphincter a good tongue lashing...