[CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread Keith Roberts
Kernel news :) -- Forwarded message -- To: opensuse-offtopic opensuse-offto...@opensuse.org From: Basil Chupin blchu...@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

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread John R. Dennison
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. John -- Much of what looks like rudeness in hacker circles is not intended to give

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread Alain Péan
Le 21/07/2011 14:13, John R. Dennison a écrit : 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

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread Geoff Galitz
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

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:25:32PM +0200, Alain Péan wrote: 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... So? The delay mentioned doesn't impact the CentOS kernels at all. Features will be backported when he releases 2.6.3X, err,

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread Alain Péan
Le 21/07/2011 14:36, John R. Dennison a écrit : How about this list return to _CentOS_ _specific_ discussions? John I agree it is not, but I was answering on the fact that (part of it) will never been included in CentOS 6. Alain -- ==

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread 夜神 岩男
On 07/21/2011 09:26 PM, Geoff Galitz wrote: 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.