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Linus Announces the 2.6.25 Linux Kernel
LinuxWatch writes "'It's been long promised, but there it is now,' began Linux creator Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.25 Linux kernel. He continued, 'special thanks to Ingo who found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned out to not be a regression at all, but an old bug that just had not been triggering as reliably before. That said, that was just the last particular regression fix I was holding things up for, and it's not like there weren't a lot of other fixes too, they just didn't end up being the final things that triggered my particular worries.' There were numerous changes in this revision of the OS. The origins of some of those fixes is detailed in Heise's brief history of this kernel update."
Still it is their responsibility to create an engine that is small and powerful enough to fit in those chasies. However I would suggest that they would put their focus on the X11/XFree developers for faster, better and stable Graphics and Drivers. My history with Linux has the problem not being with the Linux Kernel but with the X Windows System (Xwindows is big and clunky to support features that we don't fully utilize and are fully utilizeing them less and less). I think Linux needs to seporate from its Unix haritage and start moving away from X11 and to something a bit more direct with the frame buffer and video card (Much like how OS X has). Granted X11 has improved in the areas of 3d acceleration and such. But compared to OS X it is lacking
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Linus, he has risen
Stallman, sorry, but you are just a dweebass
It's a shame they couldn't have been bothered to code it properly in the first place. Then they might not have to make another point-release every three months.
so if I had windows, I'd complain about not having the support of microsoft. but since I'm trying linux, I get told to buy new hardware.
That sounds like a nice double standard from the linux crowd.
And that has precisely what to do with the kernel? X is in user space. If you want to replace X with any other windowing system you like, just port it or write it. And when you've written something as powerful and stable as the X Window System, come back and tell us about it.
X Window System sucks. Looks ancient. Clumsy and clunky. Is overweight. Give me something even close to what MS and Mac has been doing for donkey's years!If a shopper wants to choose between 3 wifi cards, do the Linux developers bother to tell the shopper quickly and concisely which of those will work??
The community of coders, sysadmins and other techies aren't even interested in TELLING Linux novices that an "Acme Inc" device is supported! So OEMs see little actual need for compatibility being expressed. No comprehensive and authoritative Hardware Compatibility List = no market pressure.
If Linus had one hairsbreadth of concern for a users' ability to discern compatibility while contemplating hardware purchases, then his group would have setup an HCL years ago. But instead he leaves that horrid little task of dealing with the unwashed to the distros, who produce pathetic nearly-empty HCL databases with some of the most unpleasant web-search design imaginable.
Dude, and I can get videos off JewTube all the time like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEYot8voTDM comedy of a Linux user talking with a Vista and OSX.
Geez, Torvalds should stop worrying on the future and more on the past: look at what he could be doing back here, in real time, as opposed to what doesn't exist now for to do in the future. Don't go by what that Disney mule says about "the future is arrived" and "the future is now" because we should let the things of tomorrow think for themselves, so lets work and ponder on improving what has already been done. Still no QuickBooks client on Linux. Still, Linux has no improvements on binary compatibility of software, or ELF and STATIC binary integration.
Get back to work!