On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 09:04 -0400, The Donald Cowart wrote:
> >From LWN
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/445222/
>
> and Slashdot
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/30/0237259/Linus-Renames-2640-Kernel-To-Linux-30-Announces-Release-Candidate
>
> "So what are the big changes?
>
> NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we have the usual two thirds driver
> changes, and a lot of random fixes, but the point is that 3.0 is
> *just* about renumbering, we are very much *not* doing a KDE-4 or a
> Gnome-3 here. No breakage, no special scary new features, nothing at
> all like that. We've been doing time-based releases for many years
> now, this is in no way about features. If you want an excuse for the
> renumbering, you really should look at the time-based one ("20 years")
> instead." --Linus on LKML @ Sun, 29 May 2011 18:30:32 -0700
Actually this is not quite true or 100% accurate. Not that its anything
big or major for some people or most. But seems 2.6.39+ now has full Xen
support for dom0 and domU[1]. I already have domU's running regular
2.6.38 sources, or gentoo-sources. But thus far dom0's are all are all
2.6.34 xen sources.
1. "Linux mainline contains all the Xen code bits for Dom0 and DomU
support"
http://blogs.oracle.com/wim/entry/linux_mainline_contains_all_the
--
William L. Thomson Jr.
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
http://www.obsidian-studios.com
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