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Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released

Posted by michael on from the dist-upgrade dept.

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."

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  1. what about 2.4? by PatrickThomson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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

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  2. Re:Beware the Toll by 4of12 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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:

    • it's very important to our business that people aren't down.
    • past history suggests that blind upgrades are for fools rushing in...shit happens.
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