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

Posted by timothy on from the year-of-the-hurr-durr dept.

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: 5, Informative

    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

  2. Re:New version! by Eunuchswear · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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