Linux Kernel 2.6.6 Released

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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If you're concerned about breaking, try BSD

[bonch]

When a production FreeBSD release comes out, you can rest assured it's rock-solid. They generally don't put anything out unless it actually works 99% of the time.

There's a reason Linux and its development is seen as sort of a little joke. The attitude of Linux development seems to be, if you don't understand how it works, hack it in anyway, let it out in the wild and see what happens. I still remember the memory manager hell of the 2.4 series. And with 2.6 suddenly came the transition to an incomplete udev system that only recently became workable to the point that distros didn't need ridiculous device tarballs to work around its shortcomings, though I've seen few actually switch over yet.

This is why Linux is such a moving target, and why it doesn't see widespread support from commercial software developers. Despite its use in several mission-critical situations, it is still very much an amateur effort in other areas. BSD doesn't try to be anything more than it is, and what it does, it does very well--and makes sure it works.

If Gentoo's Portage was ported to FreeBSD, I would switch completely and never look back (I prefer Portage to ports).