Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th Jan 2008 13:11 UTC, submitted by RJop
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 2.6.24. "The release is out there (both git trees and as tarballs/patches), and for the next week many kernel developers will be at (or flying into/out of) LCA in Melbourne, so let's hope it's a good one. Nothing earth-shattering happened since -rc8, although the new set of ACPI blacklist entries and some network driver updates makes the diffstat show that there was more than the random sprinkling of one-liners all over the tree. But most of it really is one-liners, and mostly not very exciting ones at that."
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I probably shouldn't respond to Antik's antics. But... this represents 3.5 months work of a *very* busy project. Have a look at the "short" version of the change log. It's *quite* substantial. 2.6.24 is probably the single most major kernel release in a few years. 2.6.x version releases have never been reported "several times a week" on OSNews. And I happen to be using 2.6.24 in Ubuntu Gutsy (that's a distro) right now. And it's pretty close to vanilla. I imagine the Fedora 9 dev branch is also using it. The final production version of Gutsy can be expected to be based upon this kernel version. Fedora 9 will use either this or 2.6.25 depending upon timing.
So in a nutshell, you are wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong. I could see you maybe having a complaint which was at least debatable if you complained about an announcement of, say, 2.6.23.14. But it would be hard to have timed your complaint any more badly than you did.
And for the gods' sake simply ignore stories which don't interest you instead of wasting *everybody's* time whining.
Edited 2008-01-25 19:26 UTC