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:2005-07-28
Gentoo users, too, tend to update their kernels frequently, and the initial install of Gentoo involves compiling one's own kernel. One choice is vanilla-sources, the stock kernel.
So yeah, I like to see news about these things, and especially, I enjoy the discussion, to hear about the experiences others are having.
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2006-02-06
Actually Slackware comes with an unpatched vanilla kernel and particularly for Slack {and derivatives as long as they also include vanilla kernel, and there are quite a few of these distros} users such an announcement makes sense as this group tends to recompile and use the latest kernel A LOT.
(Not to say Debian etc. users don't, but most other Mandriva, PCLOS etc. users probably do not replace their kernel on a regular basis.)
Anyway, I do not recall constant kernel release announcements as claimed here on OSnews, not even every week.
BarnabyH
OOps, somebody just posted in a similar vein...