Linus Torvalds has announced the release of version 2.6.30 of the Linux kernel. "I'm sure we've missed something, and I know we have some regressions pending. At the same time, we do need the coverage of a eral release, and on the whole it looks pretty good. We've fixed a few regressions in the last few days, and there's always 2.6.30.x." The list of changes is interesting.
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"bug" is too ambigious, regression is when functionality gets worse.
I belive in this case the topic is performance regression, which means that while new features was added or other modules/features got optimised one or more existing features got slower , eg uses more cpu cycles to achieve the same work.
Common regressions happens while eg. choosing to optimise towards either latency or throughput, you rarely get to satisfy all users in such a case, which could explain why just about every important module is hot-plugable in the Linux kernel (eg. schedulers optimized for servers vs desktops).
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Not even... I'm using .29.4, xf86-video-intel 2.7.1, xorg-server 1.6.1.901 and KMS+UXA+DRI2 on my netbook (eeepc 1000), a Dell Workstation and a Dell latitude D830 without issues.
This is since a month or two. Before that I often had crashes and freeze. I don't see those now, I'm happy 
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Well, you're in luck. You can personally change it. As linus likes to say, His tree of the kernel is his tree. If you disagree, create your own tree. All the major distros have their own trees that vary from Linus' tree.
I know that would be a time consuming proposition for little real gain, but sometimes I think we have it too good in our vast world of open source software.
Feel free to express your desires, we need to hear all voices so that the majority of them can be served by the default behavior. Your particular request, most likely wouldn't be best for most users so its unlikely to be adopted in a major tree.
Edit: my grammar filter is broken again. Sorry.
Edited 2009-06-10 19:51 UTC
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Has 2.6.30 been released or are they preparing to release it ... reason I ask is that at the time of writing, on kernel.org it shows the latest stable version of the Linux kernel as 2.6.29.4.
Update: looks like the website is lagging behind.
Edited 2009-06-10 19:24 UTC
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Hi,
Why they don't mention the new multitouch support ?
http://www.lii-enac.fr/en/projects/shareit/linux.html
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