Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.4-rc3, which was announced by Linus on March 9. Changes this time include more cleanups from Al Viro, an R128 DRI driver security fix, an ARC4 crypto module, an ACPI update, some preparatory work for the hotplug CPU patch (but not that patch itself), an IrDA update, and various other fixes. See the long-format changelog for the details.

2.6.4-rc2 was announced on March 3. It included a number of parallel port fixes, various architecture updates, the reversion of a patch which had removed threads from /proc (and broke gdb), an XFS update, a FireWire update (including one which notes that IEEE1394 support is no longer experimental), and numerous fixes. See the long-format changelog for the details.

Linus's BitKeeper tree contains just a handful of fixes as of this writing.

The current prepatch from Andrew Morton is 2.6.4-rc1-mm1, released on March 7. Recent additions to the -mm tree include DMA for IDE CDROM ripping, per-page access permissions with remap_file_pages(), more scheduler tweaks, and various other fixes. The next -mm release is likely to be most interesting; see the rest of this week's Kernel Page for details.

The current 2.4 kernel is 2.4.25; Marcelo released 2.4.26-pre2 on March 6. This prepatch contains an ACPI update, an XFS update, and a number of networking patches.

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QotW

Posted Mar 12, 2004 12:17 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

I think they included it on the front page, this week, in the SCO update
story, tho it wasn't marked as QotW, unfortunately. The quote is from a
Motley Fool article:

<quote>

With dwindling cash and the entire industry ready to fight, the company
looks like it's treading thin ice during spring melt. Given the ham-fisted
efforts of its law team, and its haphazard legal strategy, I wouldn't bet
that any amount of litigation will keep SCO above water.

</quote>

See why I like the quote enough to nominate it for QotW? =:^)

Duncan