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posted by takyon on Monday April 13 2015, @03:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the year-of-linux-on-the-quark dept.

El Reg has noted:

Torvalds looses neatened number [release featuring] non-disruptive patches, Z13 support, and more.

[...] The new number isn't a sign of a major upgrade. As we've chronicled, Torvalds thinks that it looks a bit silly when version numbers go beyond x.19.

As the Benevolent Dictator for Life says in his post at the kernel mailing list:

since rc7 [...] It's mainly driver fixes (media, sound, pci, scsi target, drm, thermal..), misc arch updates (nios2 and x86), and scattered fixes elsewhere. Really not a lot during the last week.

After you folks hammered on the 7 release candidates and gave the kernel team bug reports, any drama seems to have been wrung out.

We previously discussed the never-need-to-reboot patching feature that has now been incorporated into the kernel.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 13 2015, @03:56PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 13 2015, @03:56PM (#169774) Journal

    Whatever. I thought that Christians welcomed the thought of the end of the world. All evil will be stamped out after Armageddon. The battle to end all battles, right? Of course, WW2 was awarded a similar tag, wasn't it?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by infodragon on Monday April 13 2015, @04:19PM

    by infodragon (3509) on Monday April 13 2015, @04:19PM (#169793)
    Don't even get me started on World War II [wikia.com]!
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  • (Score: 3, Disagree) by Freeman on Monday April 13 2015, @06:49PM

    by Freeman (732) on Monday April 13 2015, @06:49PM (#169910) Journal

    The Battle was won at the Cross. The path to Heaven is still open and will remain so until the world becomes so corrupt that no one else wants to be saved. Then the end will come. It won't be some random Asteroid killing everything on Earth.

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    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 13 2015, @07:40PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 13 2015, @07:40PM (#169935) Journal

      If you say so, Buddy. The Revelation of St. John promises a great battle yet to come. The Saviour will return, but THIS TIME, he isn't going to be the meek and mild mannered reporter - he's supposed to carry a sword, and conquer the world, then establish a New Jerusalem.

      Have you bothered to read the last book of the Bible?

      • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Freeman on Monday April 13 2015, @08:44PM

        by Freeman (732) on Monday April 13 2015, @08:44PM (#169967) Journal

        1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 tell us how he will come. "16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever." Revelations is full of information, but nothing in it contradicts the way he will come as lined out in 1st Thessalonians. There will be one final confrontation, but calling it a battle would be a bit much as God will end it by calling fire and brimstone down on them.

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        • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Monday April 13 2015, @11:31PM

          by DECbot (832) on Monday April 13 2015, @11:31PM (#170079) Journal

          Besides the dead rising and the living flying through the clouds, that does sound like the earth is doing battle with an astroid. As in, the earth flings itself against an hurling astroid and attempts to survive.

            Maybe God throws rocks.

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          • (Score: 2) by GeminiDomino on Tuesday April 14 2015, @03:45AM

            by GeminiDomino (661) on Tuesday April 14 2015, @03:45AM (#170198)

            "Let those without sin cast the first sto-... Dammit, mom, I can't take you anywhere!" -- Jesus

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @02:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @02:29AM (#170160)

      JESUS HATES FIGS!

      Mark 11:12-25