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Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released

Posted by kdawson on from the when-you-must-have-the-latest dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the official release of the 2.6.22 kernel: 'It's out there now (or at least in the process of mirroring out — if you don't see everything, give it a bit of time).' The previous stable kernel, 2.6.21, was released a little over two months ago. New features in the 2.6.22 kernel include a SLUB allocator which replaces the slab allocator, a new wireless stack, a new Firewire stack, and support for the Blackfin architecture. Source-level changes can be tracked via the gitweb interface to Linus' kernel tree."

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  1. GPL v3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This new Linux release is licensaed under GPL v3, which means
    (i) you can't use it on proprietary hardware in case users have difficulty applying versions of your software that have security turned off and
    (b) if you run a web server, you have to release all software on that server under GPLv3 as well as any databases etc

    1. Re:GPL v3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      Dude people like you just whine and post pathetic and lousy comments for false propaganda.

      I bet you work for Microsoft or Sun Microsystems i guess.

      Idiotic newbie junk when can't spell what a kernel is, bullshit.

  2. ----- parent is a troll ------ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please ignore the parent comment. It is a spelling troll with personal attacks. Mod down please.

  3. User "Aldric" is a cyber-vandal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The information in my comment came directly from the Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org/)

    The comment by user Aldric is a troll. If you read Aldric's posting history you will see that he supports spam and virus writing, as well as posting troll comments to Slashdot.

    Please mod parent down.

  4. Re:What is this? by iMac+Were · · Score: -1, Troll

    Redundancy is like cock up your ass. You can never, never, have too much of it.

    --
    You thought my name meant what? How very dare you!
  5. Re:TCP Illinois congestion control. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    WTF are you babbling on about? English Motherf***er, do you speak it?

  6. Re:But is disk IO fixed on amd64? by plague3106 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The problem is that upgrading an entire distro is a pretty challenging task. So now not only do you need to update the kernel, you need to update ALL the software that came with the disto? That's even worse. At least with the older model, you had the option of just doing the kernel (which I've done).

    Kernel security / bug fixes should not require that you also update your applications.

    Also, you now have to wait two to three YEARS before getting security fixes? That's simply unacceptable..