> If the +2's are getting too noisy -- set your threshold higher. But if you increase your treshold too much, you often lose the context that make some of the highly rated posts worth their ratings. It will often appear more noisy, not less.
>How do we know what the latest kernel REALLY is in these circumstances?
Try finger:
$ finger @ftp.kernel.org [zeus.kernel.org] The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.2.14 The latest beta version of the Linux kernel is: 2.3.40 The latest prepatch (alpha) version *appears* to be: 2.3.41-1
Rubini's book is mostly about kernel version 2.0. Some of the examples don't work out of the box, but reading Richard Gooch's Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2 might help.
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> If the +2's are getting too noisy -- set your threshold higher. But if you increase your treshold too much, you often lose the context that make some of the highly rated posts worth their ratings. It will often appear more noisy, not less.
>How do we know what the latest kernel REALLY is in these circumstances?
Try finger:
$ finger @ftp.kernel.org
[zeus.kernel.org]
The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.2.14
The latest beta version of the Linux kernel is: 2.3.40
The latest prepatch (alpha) version *appears* to be: 2.3.41-1
Rubini's book is mostly about kernel version 2.0. Some of the examples don't work out of the box, but reading Richard Gooch's Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2 might help.