Submitted by 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.”
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_24
Right now the server is overloaded (i’ll get better soon i hope), but you can find a cache copy here: http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:KUKtLm1iDokJ:kernelnewbies.org…
Edited 2008-01-25 14:36 UTC
Thanx for the google cache… Wow the kernel is really popular!
“Linus Torvalds committed yet another line of code to Linux kernel! WOOHOOOO!!”
Seriously- do we need new linux 2.6.34.3694.5766 version update news on frontpage? LAME BURIED!! Ooops, this is not digg…. damit.
> Seriously- do we need new linux 2.6.34.3694.5766
> version update news on frontpage?
Err… yes? OS news on OSNews sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Since the changelog(pure text) from the last version is ~5MB, I would say a lot has changed, and it is worthy of a little notice on OSNews…
Since the changelog(pure text) from the last version is ~5MB, I would say a lot has changed, and it is worthy of a little notice on OSNews…
Two-three times a week? I don’t think so. I’d care if they release 2.7 or something- just patched patch releases is insignificant noise. I already lost count what release that was- 2.6.26.xxx.yy or something? And you won’t see this kernel in your OS of choice for months if ever. Not a single GNU/Linux distribution got “vanilla” Linux kernel on their cd/iso/whatever anyway.
BTW, Linux is not an operating system- it’s just a kernel.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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
WTF are you going on about? This is a version release, not an -rc or a sub-point update release.
This kernel will be in new distro releases, such as openSUSE 11.0, which has already been using the -rc versions in development. The days of every distro rolling their own branch of the kernel tree are long gone, the vast majority use vanilla with whatever they may feel are worthwhile custom patches, but they always standardize on mainline.
So, considering the kernel forms one of the major core components of a linux distribution, and this is OSNews, I’d say a new kernel release is worthy of a mention.
Indeed. Most people refuse to call it GNU/Linux because they are lazy. Some of them refuse to call it that because they disagree with Stallman. I happen to be both, but I still call it GNU/Linux because I believe in giving credit where it’s due.
Is it bad form for GNU to insist their name be part of the OS they created? Maybe, but it’s their right to, they made it! And if it is, it’s equally rude for Torvalds to claim sole naming rights on the work of GNU.
Actually, this is news I’ve been waiting for. My wireless card is using the new 80211 stack and (since I didn’t feel like building a patched kernel from the git repository) I have had to sit on my hands until 2.6.24 was “stable”
yay. I may actually be able to use LEAP (stupid school with their all-cisco implementation that didn’t change even after the serious problems with LEAP emerged)
Ditto for bcm43xx, as it so happens NDISwrapper stopped playing ball with my v.old version of this chipset about the time kernel-2.6.23 appeared, and the contemporary bcm43xx driver had no Ad-Hoc support. They claim that their new driver version (now called b43 or sumfink) which uses mac80211 will support it and I can stop sitting on my hands at the office
And here for the rt61 update.
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.
I relaize this is tongue-in-cheek, but sheesh, is this good practice, to make a major release and then be unavailable to fix it? Well, of course, no one would put it in production without going through an upgrade plan. Still, couldn’t they wait until after the conference?
I know what you’re thinking – with all that talent in one place, any critical bug would get fixed even sooner. But here’s what Linus says in yesterday’s “Celebrity advice” story at http://www.linux.com/feature/124994
when I’m traveling, I simply cannot log into my normal machines
I know this is trivial, and there is no impact or danger to anyone, but it does point out an interesting difference between what happens in collaborative projects versus industry, where making a release and then leaving on a trip is not usually a good career move.
(I now prepare to lose my meager number of comment votes.)
Do you understand that git is a distributed development environment and that Linus and everybody else will have all their work on their laptops, ready to fix anything that comes about?
More importantly, this is a “work” conference. Finally, the people running serious systems are not running the latest released kernel and the people running serious systems have support teams behind them at Canonical, Novell, RedHat and Mandriva.
Stop spreading FUD.
Everything you say is true, and was either stated or implied in my post, which is why I said the risk is trivial.
My point, a tiny one, was that this is not the normal practice in software development. Not just because of risk, but also optics. Just try to make a major release at your workplace, and then leave for any reason, even if you promise to stay in touch, take your laptop, etc. [Note too that flying time to Australia from North America is not negligible (as Linus points out), as well as effects of jet-lag.] It just doesn’t happen. That’s not FUD, but reality. In any event, I’m glad to see a new kernel milestone. Incremental, continuous improvement is great and produces real, tangible user benefits.
That linux fans get rather upset when someone dares to claim that their news is not importaint.
Relax, your precious linux will get enough attention. No need to get so worked up about it.
Is the old fragmentation as bad as it sounds?
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_24#head-eacf0c267f25660d4fe1bbeb…