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Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released
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.
The article suggests that Arch will be the first distribution to have 3.16, but Gentoo got there before it,
Why the hell wasn't this version called Stone Cold Steve Austinux?
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...
As a sidenote, The Linux Foundation recently posted a video showing Linus's current office. :)
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.
#Secret Windows Source Code, in MS C% - if (uptime >= "24 hours") then bsod() else print "Windows License Violation!"
It's actually less crazy than most of them.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
Dude, Linux is a text adventure game. Just use HJKL.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Yeah, just think about all the public!
I mean, just imagine all those people looking at an Android smartphone and asking the salesman "By the way, what's the codename of this phone's Android distribution's kernel? What, Shuffling Zombie Juror?! Oh, no, I think I'll better go to the Apple Store".
Or the managers going "What did you say the kernel on our web server is codenamed?.. Right. You're all fired. We're migrating to Windows, IIS and MS SQL as of now".
Linux just won't be taken seriously by all those people!
PS: Seriously, this argument pops up every new codename change and it doesn't become less stupid. It's a codename that no user will know of a component that most users won't even know the version number of.
The release name aptly describes my recent foray into jury duty with the county.
They can take my LifeAlert pendant when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
People in charge of naming picked "Linux 3.16" as you can see in official announcement.
Shuffling Zombie Juror is internal codename, which is only public because the source code is public - it's not in the announcement, it's not on the boot screen, it won't be on any product box. It's only there in the source.
If you'd google for this codename (which doesn't work as a name, as it can refer to either 3.14, 3.15 and 3.16) you'd see it's only used in rare instances on geek sites. Most instances are actually copies of this article snarfed by various blogspamish aggregators. Headlines and most sites properly refer to them as "Linux 3.14" etc.
I also like your image of "people in technology" who accidentally discover that the kernel they knew as Linux 3.14 is codenamed SZJ in the source and run away - because who cares about features, stability and track record, omg that (code)name is sooo dumb!
PS: "Children". Keeping it classy, eh? Your bias isn't showing at all.
..and people who pick software based on their emotional responses to their internal code names aren't worth worrying about anyway. There is nothing more expensive than an irrational customer.
It does not inspire confidence in the people behind the product.
Linux is not a "product". It's an open, free and Free operating system kernel. Consumer economics is simply the wrong lens with which to view things here.
The code names basically never come up except in slashdot articles. Seriously, I've never encoutered one anywhere else. Maybe they come up on the mailing lists too.
If you look at Linux from the outside, you see the kernel running most of the web, most supercomputers, most smartphones and a huge number of the larger sort of embedded device.
You'll only encounter quirky names if you start looking at the kernel development side of things.
But honestly, if it does put people off, from a purely selfish point of view, that's a great thing. Why? Because it means my services will be more competitive if others needlessly restrict themselves based on a silly internal code name. I'm pretty sure my customers aren't going to stop using AWS instances and Android phones, so I'll be fine.
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