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Linux 3.10 Merge Windows Closes
hypnosec writes "Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 3.10-rc1 kernel marking the closure of the 3.10 merge window. The Linux 3.10-rc1 is the second biggest rc release in years and the closure of the merge windows means that the features expected out of the Linux 3.9 successor are chalked out. "So this is the biggest -rc1 in the last several years (perhaps ever) at least as far as counting commits go," Linus notes in the release announcement."
So Linux is finally merging with Windows... uh, that can't be right. I guess windows will now merge when you close them? No, that doesn't make sense either, so maybe it's a new Unity feature.
There's always money in the banana stand.
Am I right !!
Or maybe they're bringing Wine into the kernel? No, that's NDISwrapper.
You got an extra s in there, yo.
"Linux 3.10 Merge Windows" had me getting ready to scout out a new OS.
The merge window closing, however, is a good thing.
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They changed the kernel enough so that the NVIDIA binary blobs are börken (sic) again! Something about whether is a real 2.4 kernel and whatnot. It seems just to be a test, but its anal and börken! I understand that NVIDIA is a commercial company and as such cannot keep up to the rate of development of OSS developers.
For folk who even after RTFA wonder whats new in 3.10, the best source is probably LWN
https://lwn.net/Articles/548834/
https://lwn.net/Articles/549477/
Everybody concerned will already have this news from other sources.
You are mistaken.
I care enough to RTFA, and I got the story here.
Why? I care about kernel development because it interests me, but I don't care about it enough to require absoloutely up to the minute coverage. So, slashdot is an excellent place to get it, and there are often useful comments to boot.
Basically, you could say the same about any story: anyone who cares enough could get the news faster from a domain specific source.
Everybody else does likely not care, also because typical users use distro-kernels and not self-compiled kernels from kernel.org.
Huh? These features will make it into distros soonish, and secondly since when is slashdot only the domain of typical users.
And this is not even the kernel release, but the closing of the merge-window,
The two are equivalent from this perspective: the actual release will have no new features.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
So I can now run Windows programs on Linux? Well its about time! What took so long? I'm sure Emballmer must be throwing some chairs around in Redmond!
You're missing the point, which is that the next time a friendly Dice employee decides to let us know what's on their mind, and when irritable folks like you start your rabbling, this story can be pointed to as a true story for NERDS.
Everybody concerned will already have this news from other sources. Everybody else does likely not care, also because typical users use distro-kernels and not self-compiled kernels from kernel.org. And this is not even the kernel release, but the closing of the merge-window, i.e. only of interest to kernel developers, making it even more irrelevant as a /. story.
It's because it has something-something-something to do with Ubuntu, you fool.
Only a day after the last installment! Though this article only has 3 possible candidates, to that article's 4... those candidates are 3/5s of all the words in the headline, to that other article's 4/7.
Everybody concerned will already have this news from other sources.
I'm interested, and I learned of it here.
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I'm happy to see the story. I regularly look at 4 or 5 websites, only 2 of which have anything to do with computing technology, and this is one of them, which I've been following for quite a while. So, although it may not be ideal, I still get most of my technology updates on slashdot. (Other than ones in which I'm professionally interested, the site I spend most time on also deals with technology, but of a different sort: mechanical watches.)
Best wishes,
Bob
Actually I'd argue exact the opposite, this is the earliest possible convenience where it is possible to say when and what features will be coming with reasonable certainty. Post-launch reviews are fun but most of the news are about upcoming products/services/changes and really what you just said - it won't actually be in distros on release day anyway. So you can read about it now, it'll release in two months, be in most distros this fall and in Debian in 2016.... maybe. That said, in the rush to get this story out and get page hits they forgot the part about making a decent summary of what's new and why it should matter, but hey... it would be the right time.
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Nice that they included some highlights of these features in the summary then instead of saying nothing that the title wouldn't tell you just as well... oh wait.
Are the things I care about - and I suspect most people do too, even if they don't know about it. The eed to transparently (or not!) accelerate spinning drives with SSD is a killer feature. I'm currently running a homebrew NAS on Linux and my VMWare hosts insist on doing sync mounts - effectively killing performance. By shimming some SSD in front of that, my IO latency bottleneck essentially goes away. (Lets leave ZFS out of this). "Desktop" distros will love this too - I see a simple "wizard" that asks "I see you have an SSD installed - would you like to accelerate access to your HD? Click yes and specify a maximum cache size" Presto - an instant increase in performing most tasks.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Am I the only one who thinks having a version number which is subject to getting rounded off is a terrible terrible idea?
"Oops looks like this release has a trailing 0 on there... *delete*."
Well since you can speak for EVERYBODY, I suppose I can too.
Shut
the
Fuck
Up.
Linux is merging with Windows?
Soonish ... Yea, it ought to make Debian by 2016, maybe.
IPv4 addresses are very much written like that, and they are still the overwhelming majority. IPv6 is only slowly making inroads, and the vast majority of it is auto-configured, so nobody has to remember them so far, at least.
3.9 is expected to be the kernel for Debian Necrosis due out sometime after 2030.
Becuse OS X has such a strong presence on servers, supercomputers, embedded, etc, etc...
iOS can compete with Linux on tablets and smartphones, but that is the extent of apple's ability to compete with Linux.
OS X can't even hold a candle to Linux as a development platform.