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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 Immerman on Monday April 13 2015, @05:58PM

    by Immerman (3985) on Monday April 13 2015, @05:58PM (#169875)

    Nah, it's just that as a browser Firefox ages on internet time - it's already becoming a stubbornly decrepit curmudgeon and being abandoned in droves for sexier alternatives.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday April 13 2015, @06:51PM

    by Freeman (732) on Monday April 13 2015, @06:51PM (#169912) Journal

    Wow, internet years must go by even faster than dog years!

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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"

    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday April 13 2015, @07:50PM

      by Immerman (3985) on Monday April 13 2015, @07:50PM (#169940)

      Dog years - pff. Those are so analog. Internet years go by even faster than computer years!