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Linux 2.6.0 Expected In Mid-December
Ridgelift writes "CRN is reporting the release of Linux 2.6.0 in mid-December. 'Torvalds, Linux's lead developer and now an OSDL Fellow, and Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton this week released the test10 version of Linux 2.6 after a three-year development effort. A final test11 version is expected before they sign off on the production version next month.' Get ready for 'major scalability improvements, faster performance, enhanced support for embedded systems and, to a lesser extent,' a kernel that 'supplies desktop systems with better USB and FireWire support.'"
mmmm, better usb... *droolz*
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Now you can have those 64 CPU machines that you've always wanted. Hmm, I wonder if the new kernel will come with any legal exemptions like "Not to be used by any employee or lawyer of SCO"?
That'd be nice.
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'We intercepted a number of letters from Linux users to Mr Claus, requesting that he bring them the new 2.6 Linux Kernel for Christmas, and given that at least 50% of them have been good, we believe he was going to supply the requested code' said Daryl McScrooge, head of SCO's 'Grabbit and Runne' division.
'Linux 2.6 was of course entirely written by ourselves and the tooth fairy and to protect our rights we have taken out an injunction preventing Father Christmas from delivering any presents this Christmas. We believe this is a fair and legal action. And anyway, I never did get that bike I asked for.'
What's taking so long anyway? I thought Linus's new grand master plan was quicker releases of major versions. 3 years seems like an eternity in the electronic world. In that time Windows has gone from 2000 to XP to 2003 for crying out loud! They're jumping all over the fscking version map and all we have to show for it is a lousy .2 subversion jump? 3 years and .2 versions?? Why not announce it as Linux XP or Linux 2004 or something more exciting?
I'd like that for a xmas present, but alas, no such pleasures for a geek.
Why wasn't this posted under the Caldera/SCO topic, you insensitive clod? You are completely denying my^h^h SCO's efforts to produce the code in the kernel!
sincerely,
Darl^h^h^h^h AC
Sure, mid-December might be when its ready. But I'm sticking with my bet of a Christmas day release. Linus likes to release kernels on holidays (he did one on christmas a while back and noone can forget the greased turkey). Perhaps he will name this one the greased reindeer or something :p
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Oh, yeah, that was a leap alright! New splash screen and a different colour scheme. Whoop-de-do.
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Debian does it, Gentoo does it, even liti-gat-ed SCO does it. Lets do it, lets dual boot GNU/Linux.
The modutils and module-init tools packages co-exist nicely on my Sid box.
Last month, for instance, Red Hat released its Enterprise Linux 3, which is based on the Linux 2.421 kernel.
Whoa there, cowboy! Redhat are 415 standard revisions ahead already, and using a testing version! ;-)
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Its a feature, don't use it,
enjoy everything else, merry christmas!
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
"HAHHAHHAA !!! Now, we're gonna drop a few nukes to Washington and skin alive a couple hundred hostages and smear salt to their wounds and feed babies to sharks and..."
"Excuse me, sir."
"What is it ?!? Can't you see I'm busy planning ?"
"Sir, according to the license of the new Linux kernel version, it cannot be legally used by terrorists."
Long silence.
In a tiny voice: "Um, maybe, maybe, just maybe, just this once, we could use it anyway ?"
"SIR ! YOU ARE NOT GOING TO COMMIT COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, ARE YOU !?!"
Stunned silence. Horrified looks from all around. Then: "No, of course not ! Please forgive me, I don't know what came over me !"
"Good. Some things are just going too far. Now, shall I start with skinning the prisoners ?"
"No, feed the babies to sharks first, and let the hostages watch. Remember to cut those babies stomachs open first, so the sharks will smell blood. And tell our IT people to start planning to migrate to one of the BSDs."
"Very good, sir."
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Come on, give a little bit of credit. Starting with XP, you can open .ZIP files without findng, downloading and installing a archiving software application. What other operating system can read compressed file archives right after install?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
CyberDeX would be released 3 months later and if you tried to use it with more than 2 users it would fall over. A patch would be released 6 weeks later which allowed you to have 3 users. The product would crash daily.
One year later CyberDeX would finally become something approaching stable with the release of Service Pack 4, which essentially rips out SupraDev and puts HyperDev back in.
The head of Team SupraDev gets promotion and a raise.
Igor Presnyakov stole my hat