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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 awing0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  2. Single Quote? by SpeedBump0619 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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...