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[News] Kernel Development is Moving 'Too Fast'

  • Subject: [News] Kernel Development is Moving 'Too Fast'
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 07:11:49 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Linux, 2.6.23-rc2, "-rc2 is the new -rc1"

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| "So I tried to hold people to the merge window," Linus Torvalds began in 
| announcing the 2.6.23-rc2 kernel, "and said no to a few pull requests, but 
| this whole '-rc2 is the new -rc1' thing is a disease, and not only is -rc2 
| late, it's bigger than it should be. Oh, well." He noted that over 250 people 
| contributed patches between -rc1 and -rc2    
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/14052

Some more releases today:

Version 2.17.1 of Puppy has just been released as well (
http://www.puppylinux.com/ ).

More Compiz-fusion releases:

http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/compiz-core-052-is-out/


Related:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w ( Compiz-fusion )


Linux: 2.6.23-rc1, Merge Window Closed

,----[ Quote ]
| As expected, Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.23-rc1 kernel two weeks after 
| the release of 2.6.22, ending the merge window, 
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/13981


Linux contributor base broadens

,----[ Quote ]
| With more companies funding Linux work, the core hackers now delegate 
| 70% of the coding
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/062807-linux-contributor-base.html

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