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Linux 4.0 Debuts with the Usual No Fanfare

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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 ikanreed on Monday April 13 2015, @04:26PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 13 2015, @04:26PM (#169804) Journal

    "Works best when you don't notice it" is an extremely hard field to work in. Everything is good until it's terrible.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @05:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @05:20PM (#169839)

    “When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @05:31PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @05:31PM (#169852)
      "When people aren't sure you do anything at all, your job tends to become a target for elimination."

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Monday April 13 2015, @06:54PM

        by Freeman (732) on Monday April 13 2015, @06:54PM (#169913) Journal

        Good thing it's open source.

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        Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"