The first 3.0 kernel prepatch is out
The first 3.0 kernel prepatch is out
Linus has announced the availability of the
3.0-rc1 kernel prepatch. "So what are the big changes?
NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we have the usual two thirds driver
changes, and a lot of random fixes, but the point is that 3.0 is
*just* about renumbering, we are very much *not* doing a KDE-4 or a
Gnome-3 here. No breakage, no special scary new features, nothing at
all like that. We've been doing time-based releases for many years
now, this is in no way about features. If you want an excuse for the
renumbering, you really should look at the time-based one ('20 years')
instead.
" Perhaps the most significant changes since our first merge window summary are the addition of
Cleancache and the namespace file descriptors patch.
We'll have a second merge window summary out shortly;
in the meantime, it seems that kernel.org isn't quite ready to show
changelogs for the new numbering scheme - stay tuned.