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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?
As a sidenote, The Linux Foundation recently posted a video showing Linus's current office. :)
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.
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.
..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.