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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."
No, it's the kernel. systemd is a crap load of applications. Applications that ignore stderr, drop higher priority syslog messages, and ignores nonzero exit statuses.
Hello, I'm somebody who wrote a low level linux utility and I want to release it under a free license. However, I have inspected systemd and got terrified by the style their developers treat the community. Therefore I want to ensure my software never gets maintained or picked up by systemd developers. Which license should I chose to accomplish this?
Thank you for your help.
I work for a Fortune 500 company and I can assure you that my company's project names are no less ridiculous.
The only difference is that my company's products aren't open source, so the public almost never gets to see the project names and all the other silly things that show up in the comments of the code.
Yes, exactly. I'm running Debian Jessie and I'm not really comfortable with binary logs. It takes decades of log practice and throws it away. For what? Search capability? Maybe there's some security benefit, honestly I don't know enough about it to comment. I'll be forwarding my logs to nice text files for the foreseeable future though, until I for one welcome my new systemd overlord.
Cthulhu Saves.
Back when I was reading slashdot in the 90s I was assured it was just weeks away from taking over the world. Now I'm looking for any serious answer as to why it's anything more than "work for embedded device manuafcturers without getting paid."
All I'm wondering is whether there has ever been a single quote in the codename before? Virtually guaranteed to break someone's build system...
The reason that professionals don't let it get under their skin is that these foreigners didn't choose their names.
No, the reason professionals don't let it get under their skin is that it is completely irrelevant. It doesn't matter if the customer is a complete asshole that named his firstborn to a direct insult against you. You still have a job to do.
If you choose an inferior product because the name sounds more professional then you didn't do your job.
The company I work for is currently code-naming their projects after cartoon characters.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
If Linus' main motivation for bumping the kernel's version is because he doesn't like how high the minor version number is getting, and he keeps bumping the major number because of that, at some point, the major number is going to get as high as the minor number gets when he starts not liking how big the number is. So, presumably, he'll be unhappy with how high the major number is at that point, but what's he going to do? What do you do when you have Linux 19 and don't likely how high the number is? Change the name to something other than Linux? You might be able to go from 3.20 to 4.0, but the version number after 19.19 is going to end up with a 20 in it either way. Maybe that's when he'll retire and let someone else run things...