Kernel news :)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- To: opensuse-offtopic opensuse-offtopic@opensuse.org From: Basil Chupin blchupin@iinet.net.au Subject: [opensuse-offtopic] Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug
*LINUX FOUNDER* Linus Torvalds has said that he's delaying the release of Linux 3.0 due to the discovery of a bug.
Torvalds announced back in May that the Linux 2.6.40 kernel will be rebadged as the Linux 3.0 kernel http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2074875/linus-torvalds-christens-linux-kernel. The projected release date of Linux 3.0 was supposed to be today, but in a post on Google+, Torvalds explained that the discovery https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/2BXkWyrY4jH#102150693225130002912/posts/2BXkWyrY4jH of a "subtle pathname lookup bug" has delayed the release.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2095102/linus-torvalds-delays-linux...
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:05:25PM +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
Kernel news :)
For a kernel that will never be in CentOS-4, CentOS-5 or CentOS-6.
John
Le 21/07/2011 14:13, John R. Dennison a écrit :
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:05:25PM +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
Kernel news :)
For a kernel that will never be in CentOS-4, CentOS-5 or CentOS-6.
But a lot of features of future kernels will be backported in CentOS 6 2.6.32, see CentOS 5.x and 2.6.18...
Alain
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:25:32PM +0200, Alain Péan wrote:
But a lot of features of future kernels will be backported in CentOS 6 2.6.32, see CentOS 5.x and 2.6.18...
So? The delay mentioned doesn't impact the CentOS kernels at all. Features will be backported when he releases 2.6.3X, err, 3.0 as needed.
People that are interested in following kernel developments have a wealth of resources on the net to make use of, both in the form of mailing lists and also web sites, forums, etc.
There has been a great deal of off-topic noise on this list in the past few weeks, of which this is only the most recent example. It's becoming more a time sink and less a useful source of information.
How about this list return to _CentOS_ _specific_ discussions?
John
Le 21/07/2011 14:36, John R. Dennison a écrit :
How about this list return to _CentOS_ _specific_ discussions? John
I agree it is not, but I was answering on the fact that (part of it) will "never been included in CentOS 6".
Alain
And more over, there is nothing earth-shatteringly new in the 3.0 kernel. Linus said during the last kernel summit he wanted to change the versioning scheme to make it easier for various developers in different realms to track version changes. Don't expect anything super-cool for us on the sysadmin/user side as a direct result of the 3.x kernel.
Of course, incremental changes are usually welcome for stability and device driver support.
On 07/21/2011 09:26 PM, Geoff Galitz wrote:
And more over, there is nothing earth-shatteringly new in the 3.0 kernel. Linus said during the last kernel summit he wanted to change the versioning scheme to make it easier for various developers in different realms to track version changes. Don't expect anything super-cool for us on the sysadmin/user side as a direct result of the 3.x kernel.
Of course, incremental changes are usually welcome for stability and device driver support.
He just wrote everyone this morning that he's pushing 3.0 on Monday.
Sometimes I wonder if the CentOS list-land is more about drama and FUD than getting anything done or being correct.
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