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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Copperhead on 15 June 2003, 20:36

Title: Linus on 2.5.71
Post by: Copperhead on 15 June 2003, 20:36

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-06-15-003-26-NW-KN (http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-06-15-003-26-NW-KN)

 

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I think I'll call this kernel the "sticky turtle", in honor of that historic "greased weasel" kernel, and as a comment on how sadly dependent I've become on the daily BK snapshots. It's been too long since 2.5.70.

I'll do better, I promise. While most developers happily use either the daily snapshots or the BK tree itself, not everybody does, and a lot of users want "real releases".

There's nothing hugely interesting here, but Al Viro ha sbeen cleaning up the tty layer, and Stephen Hemminger has been fixing up some network device alloc/free issues with the help of various people.

And obviously there are the normal usb/pcmcia/sound/architecture updates. With driver models and networking thrown in as a bonus.

Linus

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Summary of changes from v2.5.70 to v2.5.71  

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Title: Linus on 2.5.71
Post by: solo on 23 June 2003, 07:52

Sticky turtle, greased weasel.... Imagine distros based on those.

Redhat 9 Greased Weasel Edition (GWE)

Mandrake 9.1 Sticky Turtle Edition (STE)

Title: Linus on 2.5.71
Post by: Pantso on 23 June 2003, 15:45

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Originally posted by Solo:
Sticky turtle, greased weasel.... Imagine distros based on those.

Redhat 9 Greased Weasel Edition (GWE)

Mandrake 9.1 Sticky Turtle Edition (STE)

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LOL   :D  I've read somewhere though that Linus took a leave of absence from Transmeta, to work full time on the Linux kernel, so we should be expecting more rapid developments in the future.   (http://smile.gif)

Title: Linus on 2.5.71
Post by: HPC GUY on 23 June 2003, 17:13

yes, Linus did leave transmeta.
i think he wants to dedicate time to cleaning up the contraversial code.

Title: Linus on 2.5.71
Post by: solo on 24 June 2003, 10:36

oh he did? hmm well maybe it will quicken up 2.6 :-D.

cant wait! and yeah, clean the code too.

Title: Linus on 2.5.71
Post by: lazygamer on 24 June 2003, 10:45

So does Linus still have a paying job?

Title: Linus on 2.5.71
Post by: solo on 26 June 2003, 01:13

i think Redhat and UnitedLinux should pay him to continue maintaining the kernel. I don't say Mandrake because I hear they are having some financial difficulties... if anybody pays him it should be more than one vendor because we don't want to commercialize Linus  (http://smile.gif) .