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Linux 2.6.0 Expected In Mid-December

Posted by timothy on from the send-more-penguins dept.

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.'"

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  1. Xmas by czaby · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Excellent Xmas present, thanks!

  2. Re:This isn't unexpected by troon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's not a fair comparison. The kernel underlying the Windows OSes you quote has not changed anything as like as much as the user interface.

    If you compare Linux+KDE or Linux+Gnome, you'd see similar if not greater change. Anyway, who cares? WinXP and Win2k3 have hardly been met with unanimous praise, have they?

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  3. Re:They seem to have som problems though... by sg_oneill · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Eek! The "intermitent bug".

    Sounds like one of those fucking awful bugs that happens... usually... not always... sometimesish more during x, but not always y, but twice as much x,y etc etc.

    A hard-to-repeat bug is ALWAYS the worse.

    when a bug can be repeated its usually piss simple to fix at a glance. the rest is hell.

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  4. Answer me please by novakane007 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've asked this question 3 times before and never gotten an answer.
    I heard talk of 2.6 kernel using multi-threading to speed up the boot process. Was this included in the kernel or held off because of the code freeze?

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