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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 22 2016, @10:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the wishy-washy dept.

Linux overlord Linus Torvalds is both worried and chilled about the progress of Linux 4.9. Or maybe he isn't: his weekly message about the latest release candidate has a bet each way.

"We're getting further in the rc series, and while things have stayed pretty calm, I'm not sure if we're quite there yet," he posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List on Sunday evening. But in the next sentence, he calms down, saying "This may be one of those releases that have an rc8, which considering the size of 4.9 is perhaps not that unusual."

In the next paragraph of his post he again expresses both worry and calm.

"That said, nothing particular is bothering me all that much, but we've had some of the VMALLOC_STACK fixups continue to trickle in, so I worry that we're not quite done there yet."

He does it again in the next paragraph, first saying ""The fact that rc6 is bigger than rc5 was is not a particularly great sign" before then saying the situation is probably "just the usual timing fluctuation: rc6 had networking updates, rc5 didn't, for example."

"There are also some rdma updates etc that stand out. Nothing that looks particularly worrisome."


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by bradley13 on Tuesday November 22 2016, @10:29AM

    by bradley13 (3053) on Tuesday November 22 2016, @10:29AM (#431152) Homepage Journal

    I don't get the point of this article? Musings of Torvalds, as they go through a pretty normal release process - am I missing something?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @10:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @10:59AM (#431154)

    It's. Linux.

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday November 22 2016, @04:09PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday November 22 2016, @04:09PM (#431282) Journal

      But. Maybe. It's. Not.
      but maybe you're right, could be, but i wouldn't guarantee it.
      Yes, you're right, but well, who knows.
      It could be, but...

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @04:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @04:41PM (#431317)

      It's not just Linux, it's Linux 4.9!

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Dunbal on Tuesday November 22 2016, @11:24AM

    by Dunbal (3515) on Tuesday November 22 2016, @11:24AM (#431163)

    BURN THE HERETIC!!!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @11:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @11:42AM (#431167)

      Still feeling that religious fervor even though Linux is installed on billions of mobile phones? World domination, you have it already.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by choose another one on Tuesday November 22 2016, @11:27AM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 22 2016, @11:27AM (#431164)

    The thing is that in these days of extremism "post truth" and "fake news", someone publishing a balanced commentary providing good reasons why things might get better or might get worse and in the end not really having an opinion on it, is very very odd.

    It sticks out in the newsfeed like a diamond in a sea of shit.
    It is probably therefore fake, or maybe satire.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @03:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @03:39PM (#431263)

    It's like the daily newspapers used to run the results at the racetrack in the back of the sports page. It was there to give readers a sense of place, rather than something they would actually read.