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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.
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.
Ubuntu: If at first you don't succeed, blindly slap a sudo in front of it
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.
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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
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*."
Terrible idea? That's how version numbers work. They are not ordinary decimal numbers, so you cannot round them like that.
int major = round(3);
int minor = round(10);
printf("%d.%d", major, minor);