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- zeitgueist, on 10/10/2007, -5/+54Linus Torvalds also saw Superbad, and said it "made him laugh".
Do we have a "Torvalds moods" category yet? - OrangeTide, on 10/10/2007, -1/+36When can we get an RSS feed to track Linus's moods?
- Hollic, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18On a scale of 1 to 10, how happy is he? The people must know.
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18Wow, and there we all were thinking he'd be 'Feeling Sad' about the next release.
- rickbauls, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Debian is made to be stable, not new.
- Tetraca, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Next on digg: Is Torvalds 'feeling a tad bit apathetic' toward what flavour of coffee he chose this morning?
- clearzen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8At least Linus actually *likes* something.
- yoda17, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7The description is longer than the article.
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Well, Morton is definitely *not* happy with his mm tree. Let's hope they merge things without too much chaos for 2.6.24
BTW, why Digg this short blog blurb? Sure, there's a new RC, and *that's* the news (which was posted here earlier). - mglmouser, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Does it have any C++ in it?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7I'm glad each new release brings more candy to my PC.
- frontporsche, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You're in the "linux/unix" section of digg.
- NewChar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Totally thought that said "cnn.com" at first.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6r5 was the only build i have tried of Linux that have hanged / locked (num & scroll lock flashing).
Great thing is that i did not have to wait for 5-7 years to get what i am using now. - colto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4In slight relevance to this comment, on a scale of 1 to 10, how old is Michael Jackson's boyfriend?
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Linus Torvald accidentally buys decaf, cries.
- damentz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4You are on the stable release, I'm pretty sure you should be looking for backports, or build your own kernel.
- qwuinc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I was wondering that too, but it's probably because the other titles contained some scary numbers like 2.6.23-rc8 and so on (what's this kernel thing anyway?)
In short: more attractive title (or a conspiracy by early diggers?;) - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5Maybe because it's a stable version? In that case, the next kernel you're getting is 2.6.48........... in four years.
- stmiller, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Get Fedora if you want recent kernels coming down the updates. Or just compile your own kernel.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The simple solution is to not use Debian Stable (Etch), use Debian Testing (Lenny) instead.
Testing has 2.6.21, and will have 2.6.22 soon (or you can do what I did and grab it from Unstable (Sid)).
Debian stable is designed to be stable, that doesn't just mean reliability wise but component wise. If a kernel is updated then you need to update all the modules, For instance I have problems with nvidia drivers (Won't compile on 2.6.21 without hacks), LIRC (for my remote, won't compile on 2.6.22, will try manually cvs version later), UnionFS (No modules for 2.6.22, but there is aufs which seems like its less buggy anyway).
If you are running a webserver you don't want to have to redesign your website code every 6 months because a new version of PHP, perl, python, ruby etc does something different with one of its functions, or they decided to retire something becuase they decided it was deperecated and there is a nice new shiny way of doing it.
Or perhaps you are running custom code on a system in a company, you don't want to have to modify your code so it compiles against the new libraries.
The only thing that should be replaced is when there is a security problem which is what Stable Debian does.
Debian is designed to be stuck on a server and forgotten about requiring as little maintenance as possible.
Even 6 month cycle distros such as Ubuntu are out of date if you have ever tried using Gentoo which generally has the latest code within days of its release. And if it doesn't often you can just change the version number and it will grab the latest version and compile it. Unfortunately its horribly unstable and a normal upgrade will break something and need to be manually fixed. - andreyknure, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Being a technical support engineer of web hosting providers I would like to say Linux is one the best operating systems which is widely used in the web hosting industry. Just take a look at the web hosting companies placed at my web page - www.andreyknure.narod.ru All these companies use Linux to manage their servers.
- sparrowkc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1"I feel happy!"
/Python - mattdanis, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3Well ain't that special.
- baalzebub, on 10/10/2007, -7/+3i used to tinker with development versions of kernels, anymore i have neither the time or patience for it and stick with the latest stable release...
- devinx, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0Get a better icon.
- purpmint008, on 10/10/2007, -8/+12.6.22 isn't stable?
Maybe I should switch to Fedora...? - ettin, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1Does this next release come with slightly *less* suck?
- thefinger, on 10/10/2007, -11/+3Question: Who (the *****) cares?
- purpmint008, on 10/10/2007, -9/+1Wtf? 2.6.23?! My kernel's still at 2.6.18...
Why the ***** is my Debian (4) not upgrade the kernel from 2.6.18 to 2.6.22?
apt-get upgrade shows no need for any upgrades... - 8270369, on 10/10/2007, -13/+2Gods, I'm sick to death of hearing about Linux. I like it fine. I'm just sick to death of hearing about it.
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