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Future of 2.4 and 2.6 Kernels

Posted by michael on from the too-many-cooks-spoil-the-soup dept.

Blair16 writes "According to this article on C|Net, not everybody is chomping at the bit for the new Linux 2.6.0 kernel. Marcelo Tosatti, the appointed deputy for the 2.4 kernel is not expecting to make any non-crucial additions to the popular kernel, saying that all new projects should be pumped into the new 2.6. This has upset some people who are not quite willing to move to so-called untested software. Some of their claims seem legitimate, but I wonder if all these people will really be left in the cold?"

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  1. My wish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wish there was a way for me, as a Christian, as a human being, to sit down with some of you and have a pleasant, civil discussion without bitterness or sarcasm. I don't force people to believe what I believe. I don't mock others with different beliefs. I hope I can find the words to explain myself, as my life goes on. I hope I can help people to see.

    1. Re:My wish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I just finished this experiment, and I can conclusively say the answer is the shit hand.

    2. Re:My wish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      did you wish to have a handful of shit?

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

    sonya asked matt to dance
    she was the most beautiful girl in the bar
    ask greg and corey

  3. Frist Prost! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's anybodys guess...

  4. ATTN: ANYONE IN COLUMBUS OHIO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The entire south side of I-270 will be CLOSED from 5-7 tonight!!! All because of that sniper.

  5. Dissatisfaction traction. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Aren't these some of the same complaints we heard on previous kernels? Some people will always find something to complain about.

  6. Forgot something about Gnome Storage by Sanity · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I neglected to mention one of Gnome Storage's beast features, which is that it tries to provide the user with a natural language interface for locating files and other information. Again, this meshes quite nicely with the idea behind Dashboard.

  7. game API? by fabio · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i would gladly buy linux (No SCO license though) with APIs that supported games like D2 and CS if someone wuld make such a linux

    idea?

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    *resistance is futile, or fuzzy, i dunno*
  8. Debian dependencies by rwa2 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What package(s) do I need to run "make xconfig" for 2.4.x under Debian? It never finds the right qt development files installed, no matter how hard I try :/ . Same goes for "make gconfig". I'm not brave enough to go through "make menuconfig"... I invariably miss a nested menu somewhere with important options. Can't find any docs that tell me what the prereqs are, and they apparently aren't caught by aptitude...

    I track testing with the ability to pull from unstable on demand.

  9. Re:Rent-a-negro.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i would like to rent your biggest dumbest nigger...

    the hardest part will be figuring out which is the dumbest....

  10. idea for newer distributions by rock_climbing_guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I know that I'm a bit off-topic here, but I'd like to mention this while we're talking about making changes to Linux.

    Am I the only one who is tired of setting up joysticks on Linux by inserting kernel modules. Couldn't RedHat et al come up with a nifty configuration tool like Microsoft's joystick tool in the control panel?

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    Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
  11. Re:hot or not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    done and done

  12. GNU/FSF, GNOME, Debian, and now Gentoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All breached in the span of six months. Microsoft hasn't been hacked since October of 2000.