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Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released
conrausch writes "German Heise News reports among others that the new Linux Kernel 2.6.7 was just released, and that it fixes the previously mentioned bug in the floating point exception handling. Whether or not you offer shell access to other people, get it now from kernel.org or one of the mirrors."
When are we going to see 2.4.27 with this bugfix? not all of us can afford to, or are able to switch to 2.6
I am one of many. My idea is not unique, nor do I expect my voice alone to sway you. I speak in a chorus of opinion.
+1 for Informative.
+1 for Interesting.
Somebody gave mod-power to teenagers?
Or is this all part of the collective psychology, the oh-so-powerful:
"we all belong to the same guilt/cult/group/$PREFERENCE_HERE so we should all think/act the same?"
Hmmmm!
Isn't that psychosis responsible for the greatest disasters in human history?
I need more coffee please...
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Because it's a stupid thing to say. Slashdot has been announcing Linux kernel releases sometimes since the beginning of Slashdot. By now the only reason to complain about it is to be intentionally annoying. It's not exactly high-brow debate.
The 2.6 kernels have a plethora of goodies as well as being faster than the 2.4 branch. Better hardware support, Crypto APIs (for IPsec), and in 2.6.4+ we have the beginnings of dm-crypt which is a better method of encrypting entire filesystems. I'm still yet to find a decent 2.6 distro that is good enough for both production and desktop environments though. Still too many bugs in most of the 2.6 based distros prevents me doing much. My newer hardware goes undetected, soundcard not working, SATA RAID being screwed up, webcam acting weird..... *sigh*
READY.
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No, they are modded down as troll because news of the latest kernel releases is WHAT SLASHDOT IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT. If you don't like it, don't read it.
If MS announced that they were releasing an update to XP this whole site would be full of posts like
...just like the ones you're getting here about Linux 2.6.7.
Namely, "are people here running their production servers with good uptime, various weird applications, exotic hardware, etc.?"
When XP SP 2 comes out, you can be damn sure people are going to ask the exact same questions about reliability, incompatibility, etc.. At MyCorp we've got staff that do nothing but stress test the latest Windows patches and releases for compatibility with our current environment. We do that because:
"Provided by the management for your protection."