Linux Kernel 4.6.1 Released; Some Users Report Boot Issue

Marius Nestor, reporting for Softpedia (condensed): Linux kernel 4.6.1 is already here, only two weeks after the official launch of the Linux 4.6 kernel series. For those not in the loop, Linux 4.6 branch is the latest and most advanced kernel branch available right now for GNU/Linux operating systems, but it looks like its adoption is a little slow at the moment. "I'm announcing the release of the 4.6.1 kernel. All users of the 4.6 kernel series must upgrade," says Greg Kroah-Hartman. "The updated 4.6.y git tree can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser."
Some users are apparently facing boot failure issue on the latest version. An anonymous tipster tells Slashdot: Several folks on the web have reported a regression in the latest Linux kernels, starting with 4.6.1 and including the 4.7 beta that prevents booting and drops to busybox, at least the one supplied by the Ubuntu PPA. The boot sequence ends with "address family not supported by protocol: error getting socket" and then, "error initializing udev control socket" (screenshot here).

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Re:Could systemd be responsible for the boot issue

[macs4all]

I love Linux, and for a developer it is great -- but the quality of the end-user software in Ubuntu is abysmal. It seems like Ubuntu wants to pull in the new shiny with no regard to quality. BTW, using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

I'm REALLY not trolling here; but there are about 3 different out-of-the-box ways that your Wife's project could have been accomplished on OS X.

And to you, I say as a Developer, there's plenty of "Developer" Goodness available in OS X. In some ways, even more than in Linux.