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Linux 2.6 Turns 1 Year Old
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."
Now I hope that the linux kernel people learned their lesson and that the project's next stable release is really stable, which wasn't by far the 2.6 case.
Don't get me wrong. I love linux and I'm very gratefull for the work that group of people invests into the project. Still, 2.6 wasn't by far near the stable status it got and that misslabelling can be very counterproductive. After all, the common idea is that linux is difficult, not ready for serious work and incredibly buggy and a buggy release just helps to perpetuate those ideas.
Slashdot, fix your code or at least hire someone who is competent at it to do it for you.