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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."
the inescapable conclusion that internet polls are bad.
Big surprise.
But "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" trounced "I like online polls" by a 62-to-38%
margin, in a poll that people weren't even supposed to participate in.
Who can argue with solid numbers like that? 5,796 votes from people who
can't even follow the most basic directions?
In contrast, "v4.0" beat out "v3.20" by a slimmer margin of 56-to-44%,
but with a total of 29,110 votes right now.
Now, arguably, that vote spread is only about 3,200 votes, which is less
than the almost six thousand votes that the "please ignore" poll got, so
it could be considered noise.
But hey, I asked, so I'll honor the votes.
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It's the same character for both in Chinese - you have to disambiguate if you want to be more specific. There are more goats than sheep in China, so it's usually translated as goat if not specific.
"Hurr durr I'ma sheep" won over the alternative "I like online polls" which got 38% of the votes. ...in a vote Torvalds asked people not to vote in, and yet 5,796 people did.
In the real poll, "v4.0" beat out "v3.20" by 56% to 44% out of 29,110 votes.
Since nobody ever use the kernel code name, it doesn't matter in the slightest what it's called. Everyone will refer to the kernel as "4.0".
"Total destruction the only solution" - Bob Marley
when you say 'the UNIX way of things', you mean like AIX does, like Solaris does or like HPUX does? because those UNIX stopped using custom scripts years ago
Yes, exactly. I'm running Debian Jessie and I'm not really comfortable with binary logs.
The default configuration on Debian Jessie is to log everything to syslogd as before.
What difference did you notice in the logging?
I'll be forwarding my logs to nice text files for the foreseeable future though
Why are you doing that? The system already does it for you.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
I have been using Unix (BSD, Ultrix, Tru64, AIX, SunOS, IRIX, HPUX, Solaris, SCO (when they were the good guys) and others) for over 35 years and what you have just said would get you laughed out of a design meeting.
I've been using UNIX longer than that, and your question would get you laughed out of any number of design meetings. "The UNIX way of doing things" in this context has been made quite clear time and time again: small applications that do one thing well and play nice with other applications, consumes human-readable configuration files and produces human-readable output and logs." One could go into more detail, but that sums up most of the requirements, which pretty much anyone with any knowledge of UNIX is already aware of and would acknowleged. Unless they're simply being contrary or engaging in systemd-fanboi-ism by defending indefensible design decisions.