Linus on 2.5.71

[Copperhead]

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-06-15-003-26-NW-KN

 

quote:I think I'll call this kernel the "sticky turtle", in honor of that historic "greased weasel" kernel, and as a comment on how sadly dependent I've become on the daily BK snapshots. It's been too long since 2.5.70.

I'll do better, I promise. While most developers happily use either the daily snapshots or the BK tree itself, not everybody does, and a lot of users want "real releases".

There's nothing hugely interesting here, but Al Viro ha sbeen cleaning up the tty layer, and Stephen Hemminger has been fixing up some network device alloc/free issues with the help of various people.

And obviously there are the normal usb/pcmcia/sound/architecture updates. With driver models and networking thrown in as a bonus.

Linus

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Summary of changes from v2.5.70 to v2.5.71  

[solo]

Sticky turtle, greased weasel.... Imagine distros based on those.

Redhat 9 Greased Weasel Edition (GWE)

Mandrake 9.1 Sticky Turtle Edition (STE)

[Pantso]

quote:Originally posted by Solo:
Sticky turtle, greased weasel.... Imagine distros based on those.

Redhat 9 Greased Weasel Edition (GWE)

Mandrake 9.1 Sticky Turtle Edition (STE)

   I've read somewhere though that Linus took a leave of absence from Transmeta, to work full time on the Linux kernel, so we should be expecting more rapid developments in the future.  

[HPC GUY]

yes, Linus did leave transmeta.
i think he wants to dedicate time to cleaning up the contraversial code.

[solo]

oh he did? hmm well maybe it will quicken up 2.6 :-D.

cant wait! and yeah, clean the code too.

[lazygamer]

So does Linus still have a paying job?

[solo]

i think Redhat and UnitedLinux should pay him to continue maintaining the kernel. I don't say Mandrake because I hear they are having some financial difficulties... if anybody pays him it should be more than one vendor because we don't want to commercialize Linus   .