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Guessing Linux 2.6.0 Release Date
thorgil writes "Guessing about the linux-2.6.0 release date is hard, but here is a new angle (pseudo-scientific): I made a graph (gif) based on errors/warnings from John Cherry's (OSDL) compile statistics for linus' linux bitkeeper tree.
My guess is around 12th October, 2003. What is your guess and more important, why?"
is that you have way too much free time on your hands.
September 11th, so the Linux Fraternity can 'honor' the brave freedom fighters and their stand against the evil corrupt capitalist empire.
Maybe a great open source businessmodel?
1) Do free stuff.
2) ?
3) Call your local bookeeper and gamble on kernel 2.6.0 release-date.
4) Profit!
Works for me. Hail Christopher Columbus! Hail Linus!
Give me my daily dose of SCO!
Fair enough. My guess for the release date?
CowboyNeal.
PROGRAMMERS DRINKING SONG:
...
99 little bugs in the code,
99 bugs in the code,
fix one bug, compile it again,
101 little bugs in the code.
101 little bugs in the code
(Repeat until BUGS = 0)
!
... according to your approach, MS Longhorn shall never be released. Your theory works real fine!
> Next bet: when will be 2.7 tree be opened?
;)
Perhaps after 2.6.0 stable is released?
The unofficial
But.... Every IT project takes twice as long as you think, even when you take that rule into account.
-- MartinG To mail me: echo kewyjlcxyzvjfxbqwh | tr bcefhjklqvwxyz
"Testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect." -- Linus Torvalds
So now we're guessing the release date based on when it will compile without errors, eh?
Maybe I do... Oh wait... Yeah I do...
Warning: This sig contains a small bug. ==> *
"When it's done." I think this is a good "guess" for two reasons:
a) it's 100% accurate.
b) It didn't cost me precious hours of my life to come up with this answer.
I'll now continue to invest my time in more important stuff...like reading slashdot.
(Hey! They say it's "Stuff that matters!")
Linux is a waste of time!
Who cares when 2.6 comes out?
And.....what is this think called 'slashdot'? I was trying do some shopping on something called ebay, but couldn't remember their address. The search engine sent me here.
hush! hush!
Your comment is far too logical, rational, realistic, and practical for any of the nerd androids to comprehend.
SO true Seahawk, and I'm glad you pointed it out- honestly 90% of this slashcrap is masturbation, it is a byproduct of creative minds, geek-droppings, if you will, that aren't going to cease excreting.
Personally, if they continue to crank out useful products like apache and linux, who cares if they wank here all day- just don't rattle their cages too much.
To quote a famous game developer: "When it's done."
Daikatana wasn't exactly the hit everyone was salivating over...
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
Known as Hofstadters Law, and is actually:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when taking Hofstadters law into account.
He states it in his book "Godel, Escher, Bach" (a good read if you can wrap your mind around it).
I'm going to guess that it will be released about three revs before then.
you should read everything on the internet as if it had "but I'm probably talking out of my ass" appended to it.
...all forms of online protest, including turning off your server to protest or boycott anything. If you shut off your server as a form of protest, then you owe me licensing royalties. If you run your server, well then you owe SCO royalties since they own all operating systems.
So, does the person who guesses closest receive a free copy of the 2.6 kernel?
I was tought to double it and go to the next unit of measure.
So if it "should take 6 weeks", the anwser to give to your boss would be 12 months.
Ok everyone, lets all hold our breath and turn blue until they give use what we want.