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Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons

An anonymous reader writes Following polling on Linus Torvald's Google+ page, he's decided to make the next kernel version Linux 4.0 rather than Linux 3.20. Linux 4.0 is going to bring many big improvements besides the version bump with there being live kernel patching, pNFS block server support, VirtIO 1.0, IBM z13 mainframe support, new ARM SoC support, and many new hardware drivers and general improvements. Linux 4.0 is codenamed "Hurr durr I'ma sheep."

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  1. Re:New version! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least we finally get some understandable technical arguments instead of "it's a monolithic blob" or "it does not respect the UNIX way of doing things".

  2. Re:New version! by invictusvoyd · · Score: 5, Funny

    No . Systemd now includes a new daemon called kerneld 4.0 .. and all these afre included in .... .... .... EMACS mwhahahahaha

  3. Re:Its a symptom of larger problem. by ruir · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will luck, we also won't have idiotics ACs too!

  4. Re:New version! by Ash-Fox · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it does, or ever has done, any of these things where is the fucking bug report.

    The server running the bug reporting solution dropped the bug report.

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  5. Re:New version! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't worry, systemd does not take over existing projects, it only rewrites them poorly.

  6. Re:New version! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a bold statement.

  7. Why not to 11! by HnT · · Score: 3, Funny

    They should have just gone straight to eleven because, you know, it's one more than ten plus that way they could have one-upped OS X _AND_ Windows! (and it's a freaking prime on top of that!)

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  8. Re:Linux? Is that still a thing? by meta-monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, Linux is only on embedded devices. It's not running on my phone, laptop, desktop, and server at all.

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  9. Re:New version! by Eunuchswear · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, I forgot the damned "</b>". Makes me sound like an angry person. Not that I could ever be mistaken for an angry person otherwise.

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