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Linux 4.0
- jpgvm 11y agoPhoronix article covering new features/improvements in 4.0: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.0-rc1-Kernel-Released http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.0...
- codemac 11y agoWhere's the new name?!
- Palomides 11y ago"NAME = Hurr durr I'ma sheep"
- filereaper 11y agoGoat Simulator compatible ;)
- testingonprod 11y agoHardware support for Goat Simulator
- robobro 11y agoGNUs are SHEEPLE wake UP NO GNUS ARE GOOD GNUS
- cozzyd 11y agoA HURD of sheep
- sarciszewski 11y agoComing soon to Canonical: Punny Penguin
- cremno 11y agoThe announcement: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/12/178 https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/12/178
- rylee 11y agoGotta love Linus, he always makes great ML posts.
- EugeneOZ 11y agoПоехали! http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin#Quotes http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin#Quotes
- jjcm 11y agoWindows Threshold OSX Yosemite Linux "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" ----- In some ways it's comforting that such an intergral part of all of our lives doesn't have to be branded and packaged in a way that's stylistic. It's nice knowing that this truly is a community project, and that it's an effort of people - not some megacorp who needs to market it to the highest amount of people possible. Great work everyone who worked on this.
- cremno 11y ago>Windows Threshold That was just a codename. Vista and XP (and ME?) are actual examples.
- nullspace 11y agoWell in all fairness, so is HurrDurr.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoWell, the bulk of it de facto comes from corporate contributors: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/infographics/who-writes-linux-2015 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/infographics/who-w... (the Linux Foundation itself being a corporate consortium). Not that such a thing isn't practically inevitable for a project the scale of the Linux kernel.
- mricon 11y agoCorrection: The Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6) non-profit consortium.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoTrue. My expression was unwieldy, I meant that its board members were largely representatives of corporate entities (about 185 of them, ostensibly).
- xai3luGi 11y ago
- gesman 11y agoQuite a Milestone!
- zanny 11y agoThe irony is that, like 3.0, this release does not actually do anything different from normal releases. Linux will never break backwards compatibility enough to justify a major version bump, so the major version is effectively meaningless.
- agumonkey 11y agoOr maybe they'll pile up digits on higher positions. Linux 04.00, Linux 04.15; Linux 14.30 (new design).
- idbentley 11y agoI don't understand the joke in calling it that. It just seems petty. Is there something I'm missing?
- morenoh149 11y agoyes
- bobbles 11y agoI'm definitely missing something coz I've never used this site before and have no idea how to even see what everyone is so angry about
- cremno 11y agohttps://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c517d838eb7d07bbe9507871fab3931deccff539 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.... https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/TvigQqA9m3w https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/TvigQqA9m3w
- pests 11y agoResult of internet poll. So is the 4.0 version opposed to it being 3.20
- vacri 11y agoThe linux kernel names are not meant for marketing; they're in-house only. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_kernel_names http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_kernel_names
- zak_mc_kracken 11y ago4.0? Why would anyone use an OS that's six versions behind Windows?
- zanny 11y agoI wouldn't be surprised if Linus pushes for 5.0 after 4.9 this time. And then maybe after that you realize the major version number is meaningless when you will never break backwards compatibility (like with web browsers) and drop it entirely. So maybe Linux 30 by 2020?
- vacri 11y agoHe can't drop the decimal easily, as there are apparently too many scripts that expect the kernel version to have a decimal in it. But I think 4.9 -> 5.0 is a decent workaround to the problem.
- zak_mc_kracken 11y agoThat's funny, because the reason why Microsoft decided to skip from Windows 8 to Windows 10 is because there's too much software out there that tests that the version of Windows starts with "9" and interprets this as they are currently running Windows 95 or 98. Some things never change.
- SquareWheel 11y agoHighly improbable to be the case. Microsoft damaged XP compatibility with Vista; that they would care about software built for 95-98 in 2015 seems unlikely by comparison. It's also just a product name. Programmers will check the kernel version, not the "friendly" consumer-facing string. I realize this information has been circulated around, but unless this has been confirmed by Microsoft please don't claim facts without evidence.
- girvo 11y ago> Programmers will check the kernel version, not the "friendly" consumer-facing string. I wish that were true, and it may be if you're dealing with competent developers, but I've seen code that does exactly that in the wild!
- itafroma 11y agoFor those confused about the codename, it's explained in this post by Linus: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c517d838eb7d07bbe9507871fab3931deccff539 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g... > .. after extensive statistical analysis of my G+ polling, I've come to the inescapable conclusion that internet polls are bad. > Big surprise. > But "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" trounced "I like online polls" by a 62-to-38% margin, in a poll that people weren't even supposed to participate in. Who can argue with solid numbers like that? 5,796 votes from people who can't even follow the most basic directions?
- szatkus 11y agoI found that poll :) https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/TvigQqA9m3w https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/TvigQqA9m3w
- cbd1984 11y ago> Test post, please ignore. If, on the Internet, there is a forum with two posts, one titled "WARNING: READ THIS IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE, PROPERTY, AND THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF YOUR SPECIES. ALSO, IMPORTANT TAX INFORMATION." and the other titled "Test post, please ignore", the first would have a few views, and maybe a couple posts. The second would be a veritable Times Square. Torvalds got precisely what was coming to him. The next version will be code named "Warning: Do Not Click".
- redacted 11y agoI assumed it was a reference to the infamous reddit 'test post please ignore': http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/92dd8/test_post_please_ignore/ http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/92dd8/test_post_please... which was the most upvoted post on reddit until about a year ago (a fairly significant achievement, given the enormous growth of reddit in the intervening years).
- turingbook 11y agoNotable features from Linux Weather Forecast by Jonathan Corbet: - Basic support for applying patches to a running kernel, allowing the application of fixes without the need to reboot the system. There is still work to be done to get to a fully featured live-patching system, but the foundation is there in 4.0. - The remap_file_pages() system call has been removed. Emulation of its functionality remains, though, so applications should not break. - The kernel's support for large nonvolatile memory devices has improved considerably. - The lazytime mount option allows for more efficient and accurate tracking of file access times. - The kernel address sanitizer (KASan) is an important new development tool for ensuring that the kernel is not accessing memory that it shouldn't.
- jumpwah 11y agoThe end draws closer: http://i.imgur.com/eZdoFUW.jpg http://i.imgur.com/eZdoFUW.jpg (See the kernel version just below the t-800 box in the center.)
- shaurz 11y agoLinux has an EXTRAVERSION, but no INTROVERSION???
- ben0x539 11y agoKinda feels like projects where the version number is effectively meaningless except for "equals" or "greater than" comparisons should just use a yyyy.n scheme so you can at least tell at a glance how old a thing is.