Submitted by Andrew Morton posted his patch queue with numerous comments about merge plans into the mainline kernel. Among his comments he noted that he would not yet be merging the Reiser4fs, “reiser4. I was planning on merging this, but the batch_write/writev problemight wreck things, and I don’t think the patches arising from my recent partial review have come through yet. So it’s looking more like 2.6.20.”
Looking at 2.6.19, Refining the Development Process
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The rate of change which the Linux kernel is undergoing, regardless of whether you think it’s good or bad, is impressive.
Now of only similar resources were available for XOrg and KDE, it would be great days indeed 😉
Xorg 7.1 is quite a good release, IMO.
KDE needs some time right now, because creating an entirely new DE (KDE 4) is not something which can be done overnight.
I’m afraid that KDE has more manpower than Xorg which dropped (during 7.1 development) many of the stated goals as noone picked them up. Although designing X server is’t nearly as simple as UI system and needs skills to do heavy lifting (Kernel is completely different world, incredibly skilled people work on it).
Few of the mostly active contributors to Xorg (new RandR 1.2) and DRI/Mesa (DRI memory manager) are employed by Intel which choose to follow open source path for supporting their new graphical chips. Other currently active area is Xcb as stable-API 1.0 is just ’round the corner, but also the nouveau project and r300 development are active.
Edited 2006-09-25 12:33
The 2.6.16 and .17 kernels were causing lock ups on my software RAID that never happened before. I know 2.6.16 was supposed to the kernel that vendors were stabilizing on, but it didn’t work for me.
I’ve found 2.6.18 to be a huge improvement for me, but there needs to be a way to keep breakage out of the vanilla kernel releases.
Great to see that reiser4 looks like going in around 2.6.20!
Really looking forward to trying that. I really like the current reiserfs – **excellent!** 🙂
Great to see that reiser4 looks like going in around 2.6.20!
One can hope… but given the headlines around Hans and his ex-wife Nina this week… it’s far from certain, I’d say. :/