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Linux Kernel 2.6.6 Released

Posted by Hemos on from the let's-do-the-kernel-build-again dept.

maradong writes "The new Linux Kernel 2.6.6 has been released just 2 hours ago. The Patch from version 2.6.5 to 2.6.6, which can be downloaded on kernel.org measures 2.4MiB and the Changelog can be found at the known place."

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  1. Re:Uh oh, here come the Linux apologists by cozziewozzie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No,

    Linux updates = good
    Microsoft updates = good

    Whatever keeps those crappy windows worms at bay is great. The problem with windows updates is:

    1) They don't happen often enough
    2) They break things
    3) They change license while you're not looking

    If you're still having problems, I can break it down into even simpler terms.

  2. Re:Mebibytes (MiB) ? by Kevin+Burtch · · Score: 4, Insightful


    I'm still shocked that Mibibabyboobybytes has been accepted as a "standard!"

    How many thousands of titles (possibly billions of books) have been written based on the FACT that Megabytes and Kilobytes, et al, have all been BASE-2 from the initial concept?

    The ONLY people in the entire industry who considers MB/KB/et al to be in base-10 are the hard drive manufacturers, and that's just so they can claim their 230GB drives are 250GB!

    You don't go out and buy a 536.89MB stick of RAM, you buy a 512MB stick!
    Your video card doesn't have 134.22MB of video RAM, it has 128MB!

    I don't know why, I should be used to it by now, but the "standards bodies" still blow my mind with their utter stupidity.

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  3. Re:Mebibytes (MiB) ? by vrt3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think computer science needs those foolish names and unit changes to ensure complexity in the units. It is not a commercial game.

    Computer science started by changing the names (the meaning of the names, actually). In order to reduce complexity, we need to undo that change.

    KISS is the rule.

    Exactly.
    What is the simplest:

    - k equals 1000, Ki equals 1024

    or

    - k equals 1000 in all sciences, except in computer science where it means 1024, most of the time. If followed by 'B' it mostly means 1024, when followed by 'b' it means 1024 when talking about memory sizes and 1000 when talking about transmission speeds. It all depends on the context.

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  4. Re:Mebibytes (MiB) ? by Phs2501 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Not all things involving computers and bits have been measured in binary multiples.

    Network speeds have always been done in decimal. 10base{5,2,T} = 10 Mb = 10,000,000 bits per second. And Ethernet (in its 10base5 Thicknet variant) is old, dating from 1972. It's not just greedy hard disk manyfacturers.

    I don't have a problem with disambiguating them. I just wish the names weren't as stupid. (MiB is okay, but mebibyte?!)