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Linux 3.10 Officially Released

Posted by timothy on from the busy-weekend dept.

hypnosec writes with word that "The Linux 3.10 kernel has been officially released on Sunday evening which makes the 3.10-rc7 the last release candidate of the latest kernel which yields the biggest changes in years. Linus Torvalds was thinking of releasing another rc but, went against the idea and went ahead with official Linux 3.10 commit as anticipated last week. Torvalds notes in the announcement that releases since Linux 3.9 haven't been prone to problems and 3.10 is no different."

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  1. Pass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll wait for 3.11

    1. Re: Pass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Linux for Workgroups is the best version

    2. Re:Pass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      NSA employee here. I checked the IP address and it was actually posted by someone working at Google. His name is Dave and judging by his browser history, he seems to enjoy gay scat porn. His cell phone location logs shows unusual late night visits to known glory holes. He stays there for 1-3 hours at a time, so I guess we know which side of the wall he sits on. I'd I've already hit my daily quote PRISM quota.

    3. Re: Pass by Bengie · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't copy that floppy! Never mind, it's GPL'd. Copy away.

  2. Nvidia drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nvidia drivers should be available for the new stable beast by the end of next month. They will get around to it when they are darn good and ready. 3.10-rc1 broke the latest driver. They released a driver about two rc releases ago, but it was still borken. I actually think they released it so that they could say 'see, see, we released a driver just a few weeks ago, so you shouldn't see anything new from us for a while!' It was a fluke that my current hardware build included an nvidia video card (the radeon card I originally bought was borked from the computer store: it wouldn't display video), so I took it back and the only thing they had that was close was an nvidia. They have worked hard to lose me as a customer. I suspect next time they will be successful.

    1. Re:Nvidia drivers by TheGoodNamesWereGone · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I agree in that I wish Nvidia would go faster, but what will you do? Run Noveau? The fact remains they DO support Linux, and they do it a helluva lot better than AMD/ATI do.. Now, if you don't run 3-D games that tax the hardware you'll probably be fine. I'm not picking on you so much as expressing frustration at the people who complain about Nvidia. No, their support isn't perfect. Yes, they've stumbled. Yes, they pour most of their resources into the Windows driver because Windows, crappy as it is, has 90% of the market. Mod me down, bitch about what I'm saying, whatever. I run Linux myself with an aging GT240 card. I boot into Windows once a month on my main machine for Patch Tuesday. ATI is not a real viable option, and while Intel graphics is fairly well supported, their 'cards' are not really as powerful. Be patient. There'll be a new driver out soon.

    2. Re:Nvidia drivers by iggymanz · · Score: 4, Insightful

      don't blame nvidia for not supporting the ever-mutable internal API of the Linux kernel. it's your fault for trying to run bleeding edge crap; stick with stable polished mainstream distros and you'll always have an nvidia driver

    3. Re:Nvidia drivers by emblemparade · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I'm with you in this sentiment generally, though I'm also away of Linus' "fu** you, NVIDIA" moment. Apparently, NVIDIA are annoying collaborators with devs, and not only for video drivers.. so let's not cut them too much slack.

      My pet peeve: people complain constantly that NVIDIA "refuses" to open source their drivers. But these people don't understand that it's not a matter of merely deciding to do so: the NVIDIA drivers contain a whole bunch of 3rd-party code that NVIDIA cannot legally open source. It would require either 1) a lot of legal agreements (and likely lots of royalty and lawyer fees) to make 3rd-party agreements, or 2) rewriting the 3rd-party code from scratch, without referring to the original code. Both of these tasks are monumental and very expensive (for task #2, they would have to hire new programmers that have not been "tainted" by having seen the original code).

      Specs can't be "just" released for similar reasons: like the code, they are encumbered by patents and copyrights.

      NVIDIA have expressed a general will to open source the driver, but it may take years to take it to the next step.

  3. Thank you, Dr. Linus Torvalds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You are one of the greatest and most generous people on Earth. Thank you for all your work!

    1. Re:Thank you, Dr. Linus Torvalds by turrican · · Score: 5, Funny

      why, he didnt do shit except scream like a tyrant

      Perhaps he's channeling Steve Jobs.

  4. Linux is obsolete. HURD is coming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    GNU Hurd is going to reach stable status very soon! At that point, Linux will be essentially obsolete.

    1. Re:Linux is obsolete. HURD is coming by iggymanz · · Score: 4, Funny

      just in time to run the Perl 6

    2. Re:Linux is obsolete. HURD is coming by serviscope_minor · · Score: 3, Funny

      It just lacks a decent editor

      No it doesn't. Try the following:

      M-x term
      vi

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  5. Re:How Long Before Showing up in Major Distributio by donaldm · · Score: 4, Informative

    How long before it shows up in major distributions such as Linux Mint?

    Don't know, but Fedora 18 has 3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64 and that was a week ago. A quick check of the updates indicates that the 3.9.6 kernel is still the latest. As far as getting the 3.10 kernel goes I would say within a week or two, however it really depends on your distribution and how up to date the maintainers like to keep the repositories.

    If you are the repository maintainer for a customer that is using say Redhat Linux (you would be crazy to install a non supported Linux distribution on a production or even development machine) you may have a two to six month delay offset on updates and that is assuming that the customer or company allows 6 monthly updates. In my experience many companies don't like to do any updating once their systems are up and running and it is allot of work on the IT managers side to even get critical patches applied and without the appropriate sign-off's and agreed outages (normally 10 minutes) nothing gets done.

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  6. Re:Ok by Kidbro · · Score: 3, Informative

    No.

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  7. Re:Ok by nashv · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are wrong. You are assuming software version numbers are numeric, following a decimal number system. They are not.

    They are strings, in this case, of the format : '(major_iteration).(minor_iteration)'. Such a pseudo-numeric format is used for several other denotations. A commonly used one is the date. A less common one is chromosomal locations of your genes. To parse such a string, you must know the rules of the format.

    Print this, paste it on your wall. And never whine about software version indicators of any kind ever again.

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  8. Kernel Newbies? by MMC+Monster · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do we not like Kernel Newbies anymore? I've always looked to them for a synopsis of kernel features: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.10

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