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Linux Kernel 2.6.4 Released

Posted by michael on from the give-the-gift-of-aluminum dept.

justinarthur writes "The Linux kernel version 2.6.4 has been released at 03:16 UTC. Included in the changes from version 2.6.3 are fixes to XFS support, Wide Area Networking, USB connectivity, and IEEE1394 connectivity. To download a copy, it is recommended that one utilizes a Linux Kernel Archives mirror. Linus Torvalds' announcement to the Linux Kernel Mailing list concerning this release is available here." Reader k-zed points out that Linux 1.0 was released in March 1994, ten years ago.

8 of 431 comments (clear)

  1. Thanks Slashmeat! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So, we're back to anouncing every point release of the Linux kernel now are we? Thanks for that, Slashmeat.

  2. Re:wow! by dingo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And it only took ten years

    You can have a competition with any progeny to see who can do it again. A kind of inter-generational "bring the family together thing"

    (im giving you the benefit of the doubt on the progeny thing)

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  3. In 94, I was using Windows 3.1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Now, I'm using XP, and it's easy to see how 10 years of development have consistently innovated-not in a direction I'd like, and not in a safe or secure manner, but it's innovation.
    What has Linux got but 10 years of incremental patches? I feel the "if it's open source, it's perfect" ideology is the reason Windows is still the desktop OS of choice. Linux fanatics need to be able to step back and look objectively at Linux's many flaws, because until they can do that, and make it idiot proof, it's going to stay out of people's homes and offices. Geek elitism is Microsoft's best ally. Just as Windows should let me run it and tinker, Linux should let me run it and not have to tinker

    1. Re:In 94, I was using Windows 3.1 by pohl · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      WTF do you mean by "slashdot logic"? You're comparing separate acts of moderation by (almost certainly) different individuals. By what reason would you exect Person A's world view to be consistent with Person B's? Just because they're both in the same slashdot thread on the same day? How about you "go figure".

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      The "cue the foo posts in 3, 2, 1..." posts will commence with no subsequent foo posts in 3, 2, 1...

    2. Re:In 94, I was using Windows 3.1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Hi! Welcome to slashdot!

      If you're looking for people with knowledge a mile wide but an inch deep, and the hubris to claim that that're the 'technological elite' you've come to the right place.

      If you're looking for anything in depth, or sane conversation, I think you are so very-very lost.

      Why the fuck am I posting here anyway?

  4. garbage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If Linux was any good, they wouldn't have to release a 2.6.1,2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4 so quickly after a major release.
    Either they are stupid and putting in new features in a supposedly 'stable' product just weeks after the .0 release, or the product is shit and full of bugs. It's probbaly both.

    This is why Linux is crap and real people would ignore it.

  5. Re:GORILLA PENIS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    laughing my ass off :)
    Peter North is THE MAN.
    A Man's Man.

  6. Question about Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I was wondering - suppose I developed both Linux and BSD drivers to control my car. Which would the car go faster under ?