Linus Torvalds Delays Linux 3.7, Releases 3.7-rc8 Kernel Instead 86
hypnosec writes "The Linux 3.7 kernel has been delayed by one week as Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 3.7-rc8 instead. Because of some hiccups following the 'resurrection of a kswapd issue,' Torvalds wasn't comfortable releasing version 3.7 this week and instead went ahead with another release candidate. Torvalds revealed in his release announcement that because of this delay, the merge window for Linux 3.8 will close just around Christmas time."
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Another Linux kernel release candidate. OMG!
I think the story's more about our benevolent dictator than the release itself.
Re:Breaking News! (Score:5, Insightful)
Ooooh, how about a slashvertisement for a commercial version of an X tunnel over ssh?
Re:Breaking News! (Score:4, Funny)
We haven't had an update on John McAfee's "meth cooking in Belize" adventures for at least a day or so...
Re:Breaking News! (Score:5, Funny)
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Because he only cooks one recipe over and over :(
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What, no BitCoin stories either? How about an Apple patent fight?
Oh well... perhaps lets discuss yet another malware issue in Android that iOS is completely immune to.
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Amusingly, he's pointing out the truth, and you're the one flaming him. I'm not, although I have the same stimulus as yourself, suggesting that you are perhaps not one of those people who could use meth responsibly. More people are like you, so on the whole meth is harmful to society as a whole, but it's not fair to put the full blame on the drug, just like you can't blame alcohol for the actions of loads of really stupid drunk people.
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what a load of garbage, I know some of the 'nam soldiers who had to be hospitalized from using their issued meth. it can cause very serious health problems
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More "'nam soldiers" died after the war by their own hand than during it. They also perpetrated atrocities/war crimes against civilians including rape and murder of children. I'm not sure they constitute any meaningful sort of control group upon which to rate the effect of drugs.
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First of all, just to slay the unmentioned elephant in the room, the shit you see on "faces of meth" is the exception to the exception of meth users.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Let me clue you into something, Chief - I grew up in southern Missouri, surrounded by meth users, meth cooks, meth whores (like your mother), et. al. I've seen several of my loved ones ruin their lives with that filthy Nazi shit, and buried more than one friend who was certain they had their meth addiction "under control." Hell, I even dabbled in the shit myself during a mis-spent youth.
In other words, I know e
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Couldn't you just use "regular" amphetamines for that, like (reportedly) Paul Erdos and Margaret Thatcher?
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Don't knock meth until you've been about five days into a good bender having just finished coding something that ordinarily would have taken a month and find the police local police spouting some nonsense about your shooting an adversary in the back of the head with a 9mm
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Re:Breaking News! (Score:4, Interesting)
Chrome has lots of point releases, actually. You're right that they update the major version number quickly, though. I miss the days when a major version number change meant new features, not bug fixes or speedups.
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I'm old school in that regard too:
Major number means a large jump in interface, coding, modules, and the build tree in general. An example would be a word processor getting a new format, a major new feature like spell checking, or a layout change that changes functionality completely.
Minor numbers meant some features were added, but not enough to increment a major number. Continuing the word processor example, adding multi-dictionary support to the spell checker, adding PDF/A as an export format, or signi
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It is safer if you wait for version ^[2-9]\d\..*(?!\.0)$
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^[2-9]\d\..*(?<!\.0)$
Yay for slashdot eating <
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Chrome has lots of point releases, actually. You're right that they update the major version number quickly, though. I miss the days when a major version number change meant new features, not bug fixes or speedups.
Personally I don't know on what version of Chrome I have at all and don't miss it a bit, no website is at least complaining that I must run IE or upgrade to a newer version. I'm sure there's support for new features but it looks like most websites are now content with just waiting for them to become available rather than actively pushing them. I'm very glad "best viewed with" seem to have died a silent death.
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"Best viewed with" is still alive and well. Just today I had to change my user agent string on three different sites that claimed my browser was too old (Opera 12.11), including Google.
I guess I like seeing the announcement of new features that typically coincided with the release of a new major version, coupled with a "What's new!" window.
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I just checked and I'm running Version 23.0.1271.91 m
WTF?
One version to rule them all (Score:2)
I know! Pick a version and stick with it, people.
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ed is the standard text editor.
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Oh no! (Score:5, Funny)
I was so looking forward to playing with Linux 3.7 this weekend.
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I was so looking forward to playing with Linux 3.7 this weekend.
I know right?
Re:Oh no! (Score:5, Funny)
If it's not ready in time for Christmas, I'll have to shop around for other gifts...
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I think "oopses" and "security" fixes are examples of major issues. an "oops" be a term for a kernel panic (although you don't see it used too much)
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Now we know where security is on the list of priorities in Linux... its just a minor issue
Now we know where reading comprehension is on the list of priorities in Linux haters.
Re:Why the kernel is so secure (Score:5, Insightful)
I read it as "If you send me small irrelevant stuff that doesn't fix major issues such as oopses, security, things like that..."
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I read it as "If you send me small irrelevant stuff that doesn't fix major issues such as oopses, security, things like that..."
Only because you know oopses, security are major issues. Let's try that sentence again:
"If you send me small irrelevant stuff that doesn't fix major issues (typos, formatting, things like that), I'm going to curse at you and ignore your pull request. So don't do it."
It works just as well with examples of the "small irrelevant things", in fact it feels like a more natural sentence to me. But this is exactly why we don't write code in English...
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No. It doesn't work just as well. If one is listing what counts as irrelevant, the parenthetical goes immediately after the phrase "small irrelevant things". Since it comes immediately after the phrase "major issues" it is clearly a list of major issues. It doesn't matter if it is English or C. If you don't understand what
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You didn't understand what you read. The parenthetical list was examples of what he does consider to be major issues, not what he will not accept. In fact, unless you know nothing about Linus or Linux, I have to suspect you are merely trolling, but I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, I supp
GNU Icon? (Score:3)
Would the GNU icon really be appropriate for a story about Linux and not the Hurd itself?
Re:GNU Icon? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:GNU Icon? (Score:5, Informative)
Linux is the major kernel written with and for GNU. I'm sure there are non-GNU OSs that use Linux (is Android GNU?), but Linux is all but officially part of GNU.
Linux wasn't written for GNU, with GNU, by GNU, and has even explicitly rejected the latest GNU license. They aren't even close to being "officially" part of GNU. As for the greater Linux operating system, it might as well be called MIT/BSD/GNU/Linux if you want to start assigning credit. Simpler and more accurate to just call the whole OS "Linux", like Linus Torvalds does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy [wikipedia.org]
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Hasn't Linux been developed with GNU for a long time now? ...
gcc, glibc, bash, coreutils, tar,
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Simpler and more accurate to just call the whole OS "Linux", like Linus Torvalds does.
Q: Have you ever tried running Linux on your desktop?
A: I tried, but when I stuck the Tivo on my desktop it was really hard to compose emails on it.
Q: What utility do you find most useful when managing your linux system?
A: I find the button that displays the remaining time until the next oil change is pretty handy.
Q: Do you think Linux will ever overtake Microsoft?
A: Uh, are they up to 100 apps and 1% market share yet, or is RIM still outperforming them?
Q: What do you think of Linux flexibility?
A: It is pre
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3.8 Kernel for Christmas (Score:1)
Torvalds revealed in his release announcement that because of this delay, the merge window for Linux 3.8 will close just around Christmas time."
Merry Christmas to all, indeed!
Linus offers not to curse. Merry Xmas! (Score:5, Funny)
And because I'm dragging it out for another week, I'm going to be
*very* bitter if anybody sends me pull requests this late in the game
that aren't for major issues. If you send me small irrelevant stuff
that doesn't fix major issues (oopses, security, things like that),
I'm going to curse at you
In the spirit of forgiveness and magnanimity, Linus has offered not to call anyone a "fucking moron who should kill himself" this Christmas.
Don't screw up the peace and goodwill, people, or there will be hell to pay!
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Quality control (Score:3, Insightful)
We've seen a lot of news recently on slashdot about software being released before it is ready. This is just a glimpse into the inner-workings of a very large development team making a tough, but correct, call.
Thanks Linux & Co! Keep up the good work!