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Linux 4.15 Becomes Slowest Release Since 2011 (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the no-rush dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Linus Torvalds has decided that Linux 4.15 needs a ninth release candidate, making it the first kernel release to need that much work since 2011. Torvalds flagged up the possibility of an extra release candidate last week, with the caveat that "it obviously requires this upcoming week to not come with any huge surprises" after "all the Meltdown and Spectre hoopla" made his job rather more complicated in recent weeks. Fast-forward another week and Torvalds has announced "I really really wanted to just release 4.15 today, but things haven't calmed down enough for me to feel comfy about it."

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  1. Im sure Intel isnt helping. by nimbius · · Score: 3, Informative

    Linus himself had to pull a hard stop and publicly excoriate Intel for their absolute non-fix of the Meltdown issue, so thats certainly not helping the 4.15 release. https://linux.slashdot.org/sto...

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  2. Re:In more ways than one? by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do you remember the move from 2.4 to 2.6? 2.6 all of a sudden made those "light" linux distros for old computers unusable in a large amount of cases.

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  3. Title is misleading; slowest PROCESS since 2011 by Khopesh · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is the slowest Linux kernel release process, not the slowest kernel itself.

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