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Linux Kernel 2.6.14 Released
digitalderbs writes "Linux kernel 2.6.14 was released on 10-28. OSnews reports on new features like 'HostAP, FUSE, the linux port of the plan9's 9P protocol, netlink connector, relayfs, securityfs, centrino's wireless drivers, support for DCCP (currently a RFC draft, PPTP, full 4 page-table support for ppc64, numa-aware slab allocator, lock-free descriptor lookup' and many other things. The changelog is also available."
Uh, stable? Stable is 2.4 in my opinion.
I consider linux-2.6 a develop branch, example: they have changed libata drivers and now my cdrom is missing. A stable version should have only bug-fixed IMHO.
I hope in a new 2.7 branch.
| (ceci n'est pas une pipe)
Obligatory "you must be a Gentoo user" response.
Obligatory "you must be a luser" response.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
All Linux users suck fucking cock
Bunch of fucking retards
Geek motherfuckers, move out the basement dickheads
it's been stable by Hans standards(i.e. officially released) for the last year
Hans's standards must be pretty low, then; when it was first released, it was known to be very fragile and lose data easily. Has it improved since then? We're talking about code that *must* be utterly reliable, and Hans's record in that regard is pretty lousy.
Disinfect the GNU General Public Virus!
Yes, but only because they skipped 2.6.13 entirely! :-)
... and yet, if I trolled bad enough, I'd get 4326 people following up to help me out, just to prove how great Linux is!
I missed it because linux-image-2.6-k7 doesn't point to it yet. Other CPUs point to their respective 2.6.14's, so I suspected it's just an oversight, but when I installed it and tried to boot, I got a kernel panic that said "/usr/lib/yaird/exec/run_init: Opening console: No such file or directory".
I'm looking forward to 2.6.13+ so I can use Beagle in its full glory, and finally get rid of the long-deprecated devfs.
Amazingly, I can't expect any help here
I have very little tolerance for bad behaviour myself, but here's why I don't think "refusing to merge his code" is a useful reaction to any abrasiveness on the part of Hans:
1. it pointlessly weakens Linux
2. Hans and his team have done a lot of very difficult and competent work
3. the 'punishment' won't work anyway
4. every public forum attracts flame wars and ad hominems. LKML is no exception; and any grown-up developer should know what to expect and not take umbrage (including Hans).
It could still be refused or delayed for valid technical reasons. But if Hans' comments on the list offend people to the point where they reject his huge contributions, that's worse for Linux than a few strongly worded posts on Reiser's part.
you had me at #!