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diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux 2.6.27 has been released. It adds a new filesystem (UBIFS) for 'pure' flash-based storage, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O scalability and performance, delayed allocation support for ext4, multiqueue networking, data integrity support in the block layer, a function tracer, a mmio tracer, sysprof support, improved webcam support, support for the Intel wifi 5000 series and RTL8187B network cards, a new ath9k driver for the Atheros AR5008 and AR9001 chipsets, more new drivers, and many other improvements and fixes. Full list of changes can be found here."
If only I still had my mod points.
Well, before we can say "maintaining quality" we need to let the kernel live in the real world for a little bit. Let's make sure motherboards aren't catching fire and disks aren't walking before we get too carried away.
Well, yes and no. The old LK dev model had unstable releases where bugs were expected. Now every release is stable, and bugs are truly anomalies.
You ALMOST make sense if this were in an entirely different context. The parent suggested that this version is not real world tested, so it's too soon to speak of quality. You make it sound as if this new development model eliminates all bugs from stable releases. To the best of my knowledge, they've simply stopped releasing "unstable" versions.
So...
They didn't "have unstable releases", they released what was KNOWN to be unstable, development snapshots - IN BETWEEN what were considered to be stable releases. They don't therefore release more stable "stable" code simply because they stopped releasing unstable "unstable" code. Nothing you said supports that concept. The parent incredibly obviously suggested that there may be UNKNOWN stability issues. Why wouldn't this be true?
WTF were these five people smoking, and why did you write this so retardedly ambiguous in the first place?
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Make SELinux enforcing again!
While I appreciate (and understand) why you would think I am Jesus, please allow me to introduce myself ...
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
No problem. The next time your opinion matters to me I'll be sure and let you know. In the mean time, I wish I had thought to thank someone facetiuosly!
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
To put an end to this discussion, Zero_Kelvin is the obviously correct, in fact he's correct to a factor of 1230278.
Why has this been moderated flamebait? What he's saying is true!