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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 sigma on Tuesday April 14 2015, @02:47AM

    by sigma (1225) on Tuesday April 14 2015, @02:47AM (#170173)

    There has been talk for weeks - maybe even months - that Linus was getting tired of the three's.

    Actually he's tired of humanity and is iterating towards kernel version 4.1.15-1.1381_SKYN12nnmp as quickly as possible.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 14 2015, @01:52PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 14 2015, @01:52PM (#170387) Journal

    In view of the reception that believers get around here, I'm tempted to toss a "Let it be so, Lord! Amen!" at you.

    But, I don't really feel that way, and I can't quite stoop to that level of trolling. Oh well - I can sit here and chuckle at the heart attacks that it WOULD have caused!