Linux 2.6 Kernel Stability Freeze

An anonymous reader writes "Linux Creator Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.0-test7 Linux development kernel today and declared a "stability freeze". It has been made quite clear that from this point only "strictly necessary stuff" will be accepted, clearing the way for an official 2.6.0 release sooner than later... possibly at the end of this month."

Comments

Time to upgrade!

[caluml]

Great! That means it's really stable now. I shall upgrade the fw at work to this tomorrow. DNS and mailserver as well.

Re:Time to upgrade!

[caluml]

Duh! Don't you know anything? Linus 2.6 is the most stable OS ever. A man at the pub told me, and he works in IT selling computers, and I believe him.

Re:Time to upgrade!

[RealAlaskan]

Great! That means it's really stable now.

BZZZZZZZZZT! WRONG! It's a "stability freeze". That means that the stabilizers are frozen, and can't function. So, it will be unstable until they get the stabilizers repaired.

Sheesh. Goofy kids these days...

This month will certainly go down as

[Maskirovka]

The October of cool new toys:
Sony PSX
Panther (Mac OS 10.3)
2.6 kernal
Half LIfe 2
Ow! Ouch! Sorry!

Re:This month will certainly go down as

[sharkey]

The October of cool new toys:
2.6 kernal

Still waiting on a spellchecker, though.

Re:Features?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, I dunno, SCO registration form on the first boot-up?

My Module

[blackmonday]

I wrote a speaker bracelet module. Alas, it's been rejected because I turned it in too late. It was really cool though.

Re:My Module

[Lxy]

It's OK. I got my truck candle module to compile against it and I can release a patch.

There had better be alot to put in...

[CrackedButter]

Mac OSX is at 10.3 now...thats 7.7 versions behind Apple... i would say keep going until they at least catch up THEN freeze the feature set.

Stability freeze: In related news..

[adeyadey]

..Microsoft, after the latest virus attack, have declared an instability melt..

Who cares.

[BoomerSooner]

Mac OS is on 10.3, that's like 7.7 better. And no fair skipping like MS does. Windows 95 my ass, more like Windows 3.11b

Re:Who cares.

[Anonymous Coward]

Fair enough to say it's really 3.1.2600

I knew it! When the middle digit is odd, it's an unstable development release!

Yes, but

[Anonymous Coward]

Is he an MCSE?
I wouldn't trust anyone else's opinions.

Re:Yes, but

[sharkey]

Is he an MCSE?

I was there. He said his name was Darl Mc-something, and he had a lot of his code in the Linux 26 thingy, and that's why it works.

Re:Can you help me reinstall iLife on my iBook?

[Gherald]

Do the internet a favor and click the "Shutdown" icon.

Re:Reiser 4

[caluml]

Then the answer is yes. Reiserfs for lots of small files, XFS for lots of big files or its nice ACLs, and ext2 for that /boot partition. Ext3 over my dead slow body.

Re:Blah blah

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure, but wait until you turn the computer on!

Re:2.6 seems unimportant for me

[Gherald]

> 2.6 seems to perform about the same as 2.4 on my boxes

Yes 2.4 and 2.6 are very similar, but 2.6 does have a couple advantages. Asside from the exta .2 you also get increased bragging rights, i.e. you get to laugh at people still using that backward 2.4.22 ;)

Strictly necessary stuff?

[bennomatic]

Wait! Wait! Wait! I've got a million lines of SCO code I want to insert!

Re:Strictly necessary stuff?

[GlynDavies]

Bad luck, looks like your too late. Still, try contacting IBM or RedHat - they may have some alternative suggestions on where to insert it. ;-)

Re:Is it faster?

[Anonymous Coward]

with 2.4.22 and ReiserFS it takes me:

real 0m0.244s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m0.110s

to copy a 15 MB file across partitions (same physical drive). Takes me 24 seconds to copy it across network to another computer.

You are spinning your hard drives with your hand or what? Try harder!

Re:So what's cool about 2.6

[Pierre]

I can't even keep electricity that long.

I miss 'make dep'

[Theatetus]

It's not the same thing without 'make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install'

Now it's just 'make menuconfig && make'

Linux has gotten soft... time to migrate to BSD. I would if I could get my laptop's touchpad to work. Sigh...

Re:I miss 'make dep'

[anthonyrcalgary]

Sadly, BSD is getting soft too. Everything on my OpenBSD system keeps working without me having to get my hands dirty. FreeBSD is worse. Don't even get me started on OS X...

NetBSD still has promise though. It's practically unusable. It doesn't even have sudo installed by default. If you're in a masochistic mood, try it out.

Re:BSOD module

[Pharmboy]

But then again, Windows doesn't have a DLL for kernel panic either. I am not sure if its because the Windows kernel is apathetic and simply doesn't care or what.

On a lighter note, back in the windows 3.1/Lantastic days, I used to mess around with a program called "The Draw" (i ran a bbs, figure it out or google it) which could turn an ANSI screen into a .COM file. I would create a false BSOD that would say something along "Windows has detected a dumbass on the wireless end of the keyboard. Please use a pencil and paper instead" and place this in autoexec.bat, just before a "pause >nul"

The funny thing is half of them would tell me they have a "blue screen thingy" without reading it, giving me the opportunity to ask them "what does it say?". Its much more fun to hear them actually read it out loud over the phone intercom.

Slackers

[DaveAtFraud]

Slackers:

[dave@bend ~]# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.0-test7 (dave@bend.local.davenjudy.org) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 SMP Wed Oct 8 19:09:28 MDT 2003
[dave@bend ~]# uptime
19:37:24 up 18 min, 8 users, load average: 0.62, 0.20, 0.13

So why haven't *YOU* built and booted with 2.6.0-test7 yet?

Re:Slackers

[Anonymous Coward]

Because Melinda made me wash the dishes first.

[whg3@myeviltoy whg3]$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.0-test7 (whg3@myeviltoy) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Microsoft Linux 3.1 3.2.2-7msft)) #2 Wed Oct 8 18:24:58 PDT 2003
[whg3@myeviltoy whg3]$ uptime
19:18:28 up 45 min, 4 users, load average: 0.83, 0.83, 0.38

Re:BSOD module

[some guy I know]

Does linux have a BSOD module in the kernel?

I heard that BSOD was dying...

Re:You can boot into Reiserfs

[stor]

> Compareded to a friendly wizard? Yeah, it was.

If I had a friendly wizard I'd have no need for a computer.

Cheers
Stor

kernel freeze stable?

[Tukla]

I suppose so. My computer has always been very stable after the kernel froze.