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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."
To Whom It May Concern (other than myself):
Hi. I have been a huge fan of cereals of all kinds for my whole life. Sometimes I eat it for all three meals of the day, or live on it exclusively for weeks, or put it in my underpants to keep me feeling fresh (and also as an emergency back-up snack). I cereasly love it.
I am especially fond of a lot of your cereals like Boo Berry and Trix and Chex and Lucky Charms and Cookie Crisp. My absolute favorite is Fruity Pebbles though, which I believe is a Post cereal. Maybe you guys should make something that tastes like Fruity Pebbles except manages not to have Fred Flintstone's ugly mug all over the box. Yabba Dabba Eww. Anyway, my point is that I like a lot of your cereals and so I am personally concerned with their condition. And, quite frankly, lately I've been a bit worried.
Let's start with my favorite cereal of yours - Boo Berry. I love Boo Berry... at least I think I do... actually, I know it used to be my favorite cereal but I haven't had any in years so I've kind of forgotten what it tastes like - because it's not in any stores! No stores in my area carry it. I checked on your website and apparently you still make it; you even offer it for sale. Unfortunately I can't justify buying it for the $6.74 for a twelve ounce box price. You do offer buying it in a case instead of a four pack, which would drop the price to $4.71 a box, but that is still unreasonable and would also require me to spend an entire week's pay on a large shipment of haunted cereal. My girlfriend would kill me (if I didn't overdose on blue food coloring first).
I think I have a solution to this dilemma. I know you can't force any businesses to carry your cereals and I know that you can't afford to sell them direct for less than $4.71 and still have money left over to pay for upkeep on Count Chocula's castle, hiring someone to build 400 mind-numbing advertisements disguised as crappy kids games for youruleschool.com, and keep your CEOs rolling in golden Kix. So here's what you should do - open up your own stores all across the country. You've already got one in Mall-of-America, now put one in every mall in America. Even if you don't sell much cereal (and you'd sell a lot, trust me) it would be great advertising. You can sell t-shirts with nifty slogans like "Frosted Wheaties: When You're Too Damn Lazy To Put Sugar On Your Own Wheaties!" or "Honey Nut Chex: It Rhymes With 'Funny Butt Sex' For A Reason!" and other stuff which is even more great advertising plus it makes money up front. I can see it now, picture a young child in the mall with its mother...
YOUNG CHILD: Mommy! Mommy! Look at all the pretty colored cereal!
MOTHER: Oh Honey, you know cereals like that are just a result of the global dentist/cereal/porn conspiracy, we've been through this a million times...
YOUNG CHILD: Awww...
MAN IN TRIX RABBIT SUIT comes out of the store.
MAN IN TRIX RABBIT SUIT: You know Ms. Averagemother, all of our cereals are fortified with titanium plating and deflector shi... er, essential vitamins and minerals; and they are a part of this complete breakfast.
MAN IN TRIX RABBIT SUIT whips out a complete breakfast on a tray.
MOTHER: Well... I guess a few minutes couldn't hurt...
YOUNG CHILD: Gee, thanks mom!
YOUNG CHILD runs in followed slowly by MOTHER. Group of scantily clad dentists appears and drags MOTHER into back room. YOUNG CHILD transforms into a cartoon and spends eternity trying to steal Lucky's Charms and torturing the Trix Rabbit by hogging the cereal.
Now, on to my next suggestion. You need to do something about Cheerios. Really, they're awful. Yes they are good for my heart, but this is overshadowed by the fact that they taste like my butt.
On the other hand, a cereal that already tastes great is Lucky Charms.
Windows XP has never crashed for me and does everything I want and need, why should I switch?
Last time I tried it back in July 2003 (on a 3.2ghz Pentium4 Extreme Edition, with 4Gb of 800Mhz DDR ram, with 10K IDE drives, basically the fastest computer aimed at home users availbe at the time I bought it) it took 20 minutes to copy a 17Mb file from one folder to another. I checked, and yes, I did compile with -o9 and had DMA enabled, but it was still slow. That was back on Kernel 2.4.23! Can it copy it in less than 2 minutes now like Windows Server 2003 on the othyer partition of my computer?
I'm still on kernel 2.2 with debian/stable. My servers have been running 2 years without a reboot.
Is there anything really cool in 2.6 to convince me to upgrade?
STFU Lunix ruels and as soon as i can get enogh money from selling my crappy magic cards on eBay to move out of my mom's basement I'll prove it to the world by making my 486 into a router!!!!
well done, man. bravo.
look at all these retards answering this post. even if it is a refactored troll that is commonly seen in these parts, it managed to hook all the above morons.
keep up the good work.
I don't know, since BSODs are a thing of the 90s, and most Slashbots are stuck in the last decade as they use a BSOD as their only desperate attack against a Windows world that moved on four years ago.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Cool, sounds precisely like a driver corruption issue you need to sort out.
I won't even get into the hell that has been setting up X for the past ten years, no matter the distribution or video card.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Look at all the twisting and turning you make to justify the double standard.
Face it. All the Linux users will freely ignore and disregard corrupting kernel releases. If Microsoft even dared do something like corrupting everyone's NTFS installations, they'd be eaten alive by hundreds of fanatical posts here.
User-transmitted e-mail virusses? That's called a trojan horse.
A trojan horse is a program that sits in waiting until a specified condition, dummy.
Microsoft's operating system and Microsoft's browser -- depend on bugs and design in Microsoft's software and that's squarely their responsibility (e.g. why is RPC even listening to anything but localhost by default? If you needed it to listen to the entire internet, you'd know and could change the default).
Sobig required the user to execute it. If they're executing an app, there's not much you can do.
But, of course, you'll perpetuate the double standard, because it's a "Microsoft hole," right?
Besides, those crappy kernels you mention haven't affected me one bit.
And those Windows problems have never, ever affected me.
Whereas I've spent quite some time getting people to install patches, firewalls, and remove those darned worms.
They should have already been patched. RPC was fixed a whole month before through Windows Update.
Some people may have a certain amount of unfounded (or at least, not founded in technical fact) animosity towards Microsoft, but let's face it, most mature open source software we rely on is much, much more secure, stable and well-designed than MS Outlook and its ilk.
It's all much, much less full of features, usable, or even efficient. Might I also mention taking a look at my sig and seeing that OSS is just as full of bugs as Microsoft? Need I mention the "Linux Most Attacked OS" article Slashdot posted that linked to a study showing Linux as the most breached server on the net? Need I mention ssh/ssl? Bind? Sendmail? I could go on and on...
"Sufferin' succotash."
Yet another reason why OS X is the best environment going. Who TF cares about file systems and kernels? For christ sakes, people, computers are about getting work done and OS X gets out of your way and lets you get work done, unlike Linux and Windows where you're either patching your kernel or patching your email reader 24x7 just to have a working system. On top of that OS X runs on the fastest hardware money can buy. While you dipshits are spanking it to "reductions in spin lock contention", we Apple users are getting paid and getting laid.