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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 probably has nothing to do with it, but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Darl McBride was seen yesterday telling Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox that no, they cannot come in to see some undisclosed friends, no, they are not allowed on SCO computers anymore and they better get the hell out of the parking lot after the SCO employees leave the office tonight or Darl's calling the cops.

  2. agggh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post! John Lennon would have been 63 tomorrow.

  3. I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GO LINUX 2.6!

    1. Re:I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Was it ears first? That's gonna leave a mark.

  4. Re:Features? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Integreated yoda dolls!

  5. All I have to say is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sub Zero wins. Stabality.

    1. Re:All I have to say is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That is fucking funny.

  6. Can you help me reinstall iLife on my iBook? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now that wee Macintosh users are k3wl Linux hackers, I feel comfortable in posting this request for help.

    I downloaded the first 10.2.8 update and it fucked up my 233-MHz grape iBook and now I can't get iLife to work. Would somebody tell me how I can get it working again?

    Also, even though I *AM* a k3wl Unix hacker now, could you explain it in terms of which icons to click on, instead of that icky command line interface?

    Thanks,
    "Tron"

  7. a lot of you have been waiting for this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Woohoo. Lixnuts 2.6!

  8. Poll: My annual income (USD) is by stock · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    heh, dirty f..kers : Poll: My annual income (USD) is ,
    but one can only submit after registering your credentials^H^H^Hcardinfo :))

    2 inches below is a FAT PAYPALL button........
    geez what would BillG think of this ?

    Robert

  9. Re:Is it faster? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hahahahahaha! (I rest my case on the knowledge of those that use MS products)

  10. But will it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    run Linux?.... Oh wait....

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this that all belong to us in Soviet Russia where the plan is...

    1. Compile 2.6 kernel
    2. ????
    3. Profit

    That should about do it...

  11. Re:Is it faster? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mmm... troll-tastic.

  12. ha ha ha by rutledjw · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    real funny, you insensitive clods!

    You know what? My job (as if I had a choice to accept it) it so install this new kernel on IBM x445s and get the SOB working so we can get 16 CPUs and 64GB of RAM on a single machine (and we're planning on a farm of these - don't ask, it's a "unique" situation...). This is supposdly available only under RH Adv Server 3.0 (but not really)which uses "features" from the new 2.6 kernel.

    Considering RH AS 3.0 isn't coming out until the 15th, this is going to be ugly. Ugly, as is become-a-drunk-and-heroin-addict ugly.

    Playing with cutting/bleeding edge tech is one thing. Playing with bleeding edge tech on a deadline is quite another.

    But as much as I bitch about it, it's still kinda cool...

    --

    Computer Science is Applied Philosophy