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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Member since:2005-07-06
Well, you are right about that vanilla kernels aren't in the distro releases, but if you got a rather "lowtech"
Well. In short, here is one person who's always used vanilla kernels, as long as I'm using Linux overall. And I'm not alone. So yes, new vanilla releases are indeed newsworthy for some people out there besides distro devs and packagers.
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2006-12-18
Well, you are right about that vanilla kernels aren't in the distro releases, but if you got a rather "lowtech"(please do not missunderstand what I mean here) distro like Slackware, there is not much problems running a vanilla kernel. I guess you can do that on a "hightech" distro like suse/fedora/Xbuntu, but with a little more hassle than say Slackware...
If this was a 2.6.23.x relaes I could understand that you are upset because it got attention, but this is a little bigger release, so I for one think that it is nice to hear about it...