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Guessing Linux 2.6.0 Release Date

Posted by timothy on from the angels-on-head-of-pin-typing dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:beta testers by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ummm, the Kernel Bug Tracker as previously discussed here?

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    You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
  2. still some big issues by drago · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't think it will happen during the next 6 weeks, there are still some major things to be done. IDE still does not work as module (some circular dependencies in symbols), ISDN is still somewhere between the no longer working old model and the not yet complete CAPI support, just to name two.

  3. Re:Gifs are bad! by Zenki · · Score: 3, Informative

    But then again, gifs and pngs are still better for line art. chunking the image into 8x8 blocks doesn't make sense for charts and low color images. In these scenarios, it's better to just use gif/png.

  4. since ADA by ShaggyZet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not that I think it's the greatest language or anything, but my experience with ADA was that vastly more stupid things that programmers (in this case me) do show up as compile time errors. Almost to the point where if a program compiled it was bug free. Of course it's still possible to have a logical errors, but whole classes of what would be run time errors in C are compile time errors when ADA is properly used with things like range checking.