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Kernel release status
The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.26-rc6, released by Linus on
June 12. "I'd like to say that the diffs are shrinking and
things are calming down, but I'd be lying. Another week, another -rc, and I
another 350 commits." See the long-format
changelog for all the details.
As of this writing, some 140 commits have gone into the mainline git repository since the 2.6.26-rc6 release. They include a number of fixes and a new driver for FM3130 realtime clocks. The current -mm tree is 2.6.26-rc5-mm3. Says Andrew: "The aim here is to get all the stupid bugs out of the way so that some serious MM testing can be performed." Among other things, this release contains the latest version of the pageout scalability patches (see below). The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.25.7, released on June 16. It contains a rather long list of important fixes. (Log in to post comments)
Quote Of The Week disappeared? Posted Jun 19, 2008 5:09 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] This is the second time in a row that I haven't seen a Quote of the Week. Has that feature of LWN been retired? :-( Or moved elsewhere?
Quote Of The Week disappeared? Posted Jun 19, 2008 5:18 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] I hope not, I really liked those quotes!
Proposed quote of the week Posted Jun 19, 2008 5:37 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Well, I hope our editors don't mind, but I nominate the below funny quote (regarding a suggested, untested patch) for a QOTW: If somebody wants to play with it, go wild. I didn't do "change_bit()", because nobody sane uses that thing anyway. I guarantee nothing. And if it breaks, nobody saw me do anything. You can't prove this email wasn't sent by somebody who is good at forging smtp.
Quote Of The Week disappeared? Posted Jun 19, 2008 7:44 UTC (Thu) by Klavs (subscriber, #10563) [Link] ditto - I really miss the quotes too.
Quote Of The Week disappeared? Posted Jun 19, 2008 11:09 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] The QOTW has not been retired. I'm just back from two weeks offline and was really scrambling to pull anything together at all - as readers of the stuff I did manage to write this week might attest. No good quotes jumped at me, and I didn't have the time to do any extensive digging. My QOTW policy has always been to leave it out if I don't find anything suitable rather than put in some sort of boring filler.
Thanks for the update Posted Jun 19, 2008 14:48 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Thank you, Jon, for the update. I didn't mean to sound as if I were pestering.
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