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Linux 2.6 Kernel Stability Freeze

Posted by simoniker on from the os-musical-chairs dept.

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."

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  1. This month will certainly go down as by Maskirovka · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Re:Features? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. My Module by blackmonday · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. Stability freeze: In related news.. by adeyadey · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  5. Who cares. by BoomerSooner · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  6. Re:Time to upgrade! by RealAlaskan · · Score: 4, Funny
    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...

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  7. Re:Can you help me reinstall iLife on my iBook? by Gherald · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  8. Re:Reiser 4 by caluml · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  9. Strictly necessary stuff? by bennomatic · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Strictly necessary stuff? by GlynDavies · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  10. I miss 'make dep' by Theatetus · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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