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Kernel release status
The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.25-rc9, released on April 11. The
stable 2.6.25 release is imminent, and will likely be out by the time you
read this; your editor suspects that Linus is just waiting for LWN to be
published before shoving the release out the door.
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The current -mm tree is 2.6.25-rc8-mm2. Recent changes
to -mm include the new suspend
and hibernation infrastructure, another long series of IDE patches,
some wireless USB work, and kernel marker support for
proprietary modules.
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Kernel release status
Posted Apr 17, 2008 1:30 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]
Your reader suspects that one of these days, Linus will take up our editor on his suspicions and call his release the LWN Just In Time release, and that our editor will be perhaps a bit less grumpy for the remainder of the day :-)
Kernel release status
Posted Apr 17, 2008 3:59 UTC (Thu) by wrh2 (guest, #4254) [Link]
The grumpy editor called this one correctly - see the release announcement.
Kernel release status
Posted Apr 17, 2008 22:17 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Does 'wireless USB' in the summary mean support for the Wireless USB standard (as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_USB - a wireless transport for the USB protocol)? Or is it simply providing better support of WiFi USB dongles? If it's the latter, it would really reduce confusion if LWN avoids using the term "wireless USB" in its summaries - this has happened before e.g. http://lwn.net/Articles/120223/. However, LWN has also reported on Wireless USB support in Linux, so the best thing is to always use the capital W if you mean Wireless USB, and use WiFi USB or similar if you mean WiFi.
Wireless USB
Posted Apr 17, 2008 23:00 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]
"Wireless USB" means "wireless USB" - I don't believe LWN has ever use the term any other way. The 2005 article you linked was for a NewsForge piece, not something LWN did...