CentOS - Jul 2011 - OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

Kernel news :)

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From: Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>
Subject: [opensuse-offtopic] Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a
     subtle bug

*LINUX FOUNDER* Linus Torvalds has said that he's delaying the release of 
Linux 3.0 due to the discovery of a bug.

Torvalds announced back in May that the Linux 2.6.40 kernel will be 
rebadged as the Linux 3.0 kernel 
<http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2074875/linus-torvalds-christens-linux-kernel>.
The projected release date of Linux 3.0 was supposed to be today, but in a 
post on Google+, Torvalds explained that the discovery 
<https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/2BXkWyrY4jH#102150693225130002912/posts/2BXkWyrY4jH>
of a "subtle pathname lookup bug" has delayed the release.

[Full story]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2095102/linus-torvalds-delays-linux-launch-subtle-bug?WT.rss_f=&WT.rss_a=Linus+Torvalds+delays+Linux+3.0+launch+due+to+a+subtle+bug

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On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:05:25PM +0100, Keith Roberts
wrote:
> Kernel news :)
For a kernel that will never be in CentOS-4, CentOS-5 or CentOS-6.




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Le 21/07/2011 14:13, John R. Dennison a ?crit :
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:05:25PM +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
>> Kernel news :)
> For a kernel that will never be in CentOS-4, CentOS-5 or CentOS-6.
But a lot of features of future kernels will be backported in CentOS 6 
2.6.32, see CentOS 5.x and 2.6.18...

Alain

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And more over, there is nothing earth-shatteringly new in the 3.0 kernel. 
Linus said during the last kernel summit he wanted to change the versioning 
scheme to make it easier for various developers in different realms to track 
version changes.   Don't expect anything super-cool for us on the 
sysadmin/user side as a direct result of the 3.x kernel.

Of course, incremental changes are usually welcome for stability and device 
driver support.