Guessing Linux 2.6.0 Release Date

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Guessing Linux 2.6.0 Release Date

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 26, 2003 @09:29PM 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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Dubya's resume ! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-26 21:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic
Dubya's resume:
- I attacked and took over two countries.
- I spent the US surplus and bankrupted the Treasury.
- I shattered the record for biggest annual deficit in history.
- I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
- I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
- I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
- I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
- In my first year in office Iset the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
- After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, Ipresided over the worst security failure in US history.
- I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips by any president in US history.
- In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.
- I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.
- I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
- I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
- I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president since the advent of TV.
- I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other president in US history.
- I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
- I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
- I cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
- I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind
- I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
- I 've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history.
- Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.)
- I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
- I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world.
- I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and Idid so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
- I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
- I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history.
- I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.
- I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board.
- I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of Congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
- I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
- I withdrew from the World Court of Law.
- I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
- I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.
- I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
- The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former
1. Re:Dubya's resume ! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-26 23:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  The Goatse Guy needs our help. He's lagging severely behind many other candidates in the race. Vote Goatse!
Re:May be a good businessmodel? by higuy48 · 2003-08-26 21:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Normally, I would mod you funny because right now I have points, but I can't resist telling you people how much I love hearing that "Profit!" joke.

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Re:Please help! by Diesel+Dave · 2003-08-26 22:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You need Crossover office: http://codeweavers.com

(Dumb ass troll)
Gifs are bad! by gperciva · 2003-08-26 22:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Shouldn't you be using a .png file instead of a .gif?
burnallgifs.org
1. Re:Gifs are bad! by thorgil · 2003-08-26 22:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  png saving in gimp didn't work... (hmmm.. used to..)
  some crc32 error i belive it was....
  
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2. Re:Gifs are bad! by mirko · 2003-08-26 22:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  No problem : The LZW algorithm has fallen in the Public domain 2 months and a week ago.
  
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3. Re:Gifs are bad! by Lumpy · 2003-08-26 22:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  wow you are way behind the times...
  
  Gif's are now public domain. the patent ran out a while ago.
  
  It's all a moot point now. Although IE still has very broken png support.
  
  Besides it should be a jpeg as they are smaller and waste less bandwidth.
  
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Nope by thorgil · 2003-08-26 22:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Beeep!! wrong!
Guess again?

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redhat kernels by tlallen · 2003-08-26 23:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Ever since I've been using the kernels for RH 9, I've found I can't use my cd-rom drive because I get messages like "hdc: lost interrupt" after which the system locks up. This was no the case when I was using the 2.4.20 kernel (linus' tree). I have a hunch it's to do with IRQ's but have not the further technical knowledge to diagnose. Has anyone else had similar probs? Anyone know what I should do about it? (see below) Thanks to any help, Tim. (tim_allen AT optusnet DOT com DOT au) bash-2.05b$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 301781 XT-PIC timer 1: 1250 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 14 XT-PIC EMU10K1 4: 914252 XT-PIC serial 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci 11: 4 XT-PIC usb-uhci, eth0 12: 51452 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 12074 XT-PIC ide0 15: 20451 XT-PIC ide1 I have hda on id0 and the cdrom (hdc) on ide1 along with my other hard drive (hdd)
1. Re:redhat kernels by tlallen · 2003-08-27 00:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Thanks, but I don't think I have a Via chipset. ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1 ICH2: chipset revision 2 ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: ST340016A, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c03cdfe0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: Lite-On LTN483S 48x Max, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: Maxtor 5T040H4, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c03ce588, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA(100) hdd: attached ide-disk driver. hdd: host protected area => 1 hdd: setmax LBA 80043264, native 78125000 hdd: 78125000 sectors (40000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77504/16/63, UDMA(33) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Re:beta testers by Gax · 2003-08-26 23:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

For those of use that are running the 2.5/2.6beta kernel, what should we do when we do find bugs?

Eat them. They're full of fibre and salty goodness.
How 'bout now? by blueforce · 2003-08-27 00:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How 'bout now?
How 'bout now?
How 'bout now?
How 'bout now?
How 'bout now?

I missed it....

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In other news.. SCO.COM is down. AGAIN! by jgarland79 · 2003-08-27 00:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It looks like SCO is being DOSed again.

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debian by SHEENmaster · 2003-08-27 10:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Gentoo was too incomplete for my taste. I use Debian (Sid/PPC and Sarge/X86), OpenZaurus, OpenBSD, and my own custom-made bootable Linux disc.

When I get a G4 or Sparc64, I'll give Gentoo another shot.

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