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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."

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  1. Also... by Plake · · Score: 2, Interesting

    RoTK also was released in theaters on the same day. It was a great day all round.

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  2. Re:Still on 2.4 here by n1ywb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You may have an oddball USB controller that isn't enabled by default in most kernels, even though it probably IS supported by 2.6. Do you have "assign IRQ to usb" or "usb dos mode" or whateever turned on in your BIOS?

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  3. 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.

  4. Happy birthday, 2.6 by GreatBunzinni · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

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  5. 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.