Linux Kernel Gets Fully Automated Test

An anonymous reader writes "The Linux Kernel is now getting automatically tested within 15 minutes of a new version being released, across a variety of hardware and the results are being published for all to see. Martin Bligh announced this yesterday, running on top of IBM's internal test automation system. Maybe this will enable the kernel developers to keep up with the 2.6 kernel's rapid pace of change. Looks like it caught one new problem with last night's build already ..."

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[Anonymous Coward]

fact came iNto d0n't feel that

Well, this time I am really unhappy!

[kompiluj]

1) the very need for such tests means that current 2.6.x kernels are very unstable - this means that Linux currently does not have any stable version - not good
2) remember Microsoft? they have been always doing nightly builds of Windows since the beginning of the time; the only thing sure is that it did not improve the quality of the code...