Linux Kernel 2.6.4 Released

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.

Comments

still the ugly hack?

[minus_273]

does linux have true preemption in the kernel yet? or are they still using the ugly hack with preemption points?
There a ton of dumb things that i can put up with in the OS like the truly horrid thread support ( which uses the system scheduler), the lack of a userlevel scheduler (and thus slow as hell) and the O(1) scheduler that is just round robin! but the lack of preemption is one of the things that made me move to OS X instead. oh yeah, and darwin does threading correctly.

Re:How many have upgraded and then gone back?

[Abcd1234]

Good for them. Why do I care?