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."

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Merge Windows Closes

[boshvark]

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.

Re:Merge Windows Closes

[Samantha Wright]

No, no, it says quite clearly that they're only merging with Windows 3.1, which is barely Windows by any useful definition. Didn't you RTFA? Jeez, the nerve of some people...

Re:Yes, nice. But why is this a story?

[serviscope_minor]

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.