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Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

sfcrazy writes Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux kernel 3.16 codenamed "Shuffling Zombie Juror", which brings many notable improvements. Linus said, "So while 3.16 looked a bit iffy for a while, things cleared up nicely, and there was no reason to do extra release candidates like I feared just a couple of weeks ago." It also means that working on 3.17 has started, "And as usual (previous release being the exception) that means that the merge window for 3.17 is obviously open," said Linus.

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  1. Arch not the first by grahammm · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article suggests that Arch will be the first distribution to have 3.16, but Gentoo got there before it,

  2. Re:BOUND TO BE A BEST SELLER !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Debian will be using the Shuffling Zombie release. So the Shuffling Zombie will live on, for a number of years.

    https://lists.debian.org/debia...

  3. Re:BOUND TO BE A BEST SELLER !! by eventhorizon5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The last 3 releases (3.14, 3.15 and 3.16) have all been named Shuffling Zombie Juror (with 3.13 being "One Giant Leap for Frogkind"), so I'm guessing Linus gave up on the nonsense release names or something. I was looking forward to new ones, but there haven't been any in a while.

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  4. Re:BOUND TO BE A BEST SELLER !! by Tenebrousedge · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's actually less crazy than most of them.

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