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Linux 2.6 Turns 1 Year Old

Posted by michael on from the rated-p-for-progress dept.

Paul Kucher writes "On December 17th, 2003, Linux 2.6 was released by Linus Torvalds, saying 'The beaver is out of detox.' This was a reference to the last pre-release of the 2.6 kernel, which was called Beaver in Detox. Although a stable release, the 2.6 kernel has added many new features in the past year due to the new development model. It will be interesting to see what else is in store for this kernel, and I imagine it will be years before it is in maintenance mode."

3 of 24 comments (clear)

  1. uptime... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Linux mu 2.6.0-gentoo-r1 #2 SMP Sat Jul 17 14:53:56 CDT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1200MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
    12:16:12 up 365 days, 6 users, load average: 2.07, 2.17, 2.03

  2. Re:Still on 2.4 here by wolf31o2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try a Gentoo 2004.3-r1 LiveCD. We have had exactly ZERO bug reports of people's USB not working with our CD, and we don't have any special USB patches added from vanilla 2.6.9, so it should work perfectly for you.

  3. bullshit! by b374 · · Score: 2, Informative
    Linux mu 2.6.0-gentoo-r1 #2 SMP Sat Jul 17 14:53:56 CDT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1200MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
    12:16:12 up 365 days, 6 users, load average: 2.07, 2.17, 2.03


    That's bullshit since the output shows that your kernel was compiled in July 2004, not in December last year.