[Tech] Torvalds ha rilasciato la rel. 2.6.0-test10 del Linux kernel

Dal sito KernelTrap la notizia del rilascio della release 2.6.0-test10 (a circa un mese dal rilascio della 2.6.0-test9) del kernel di GNU/Linux, corredata dalla letterina d'accompagno di Linus Torvalds:

From: Linus Torvalds [email blocked]

To: Kernel Mailing List [email blocked]

Subject: Linux 2.6.0-test10

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:43:54 -0800 (PST)



Ok,



it's been almost a month between test9 and test10, with a constant but

diminishing trickle of small patches. The full changes are slightly larger

than I was hoping for, but considering that the patch is barely over 100kB

compressed for a month worth of work, I'm still fairly pleased.



There is still something strange going on that seems to be triggered by

preemption, so for now we suggest not enabling CONFIG_PREEMPT if you want

the highest stability. On the other hand, I'd love to have more testing,

so that we can try to figure out what the pattern is - but please mention

explicitly that you ran with preemption if you have problems.



(...)



The changelog gives more details, but the bigger things here are various

networking fixes, and the SCSI layer being better at refcounting some data

structures (the oopses on USB storage removal that some people have seen

should hopefully be fixed).



[ Btw, I tried to come up with a good name for this release. But the fact

is, that as Scott Adams has so often pointed out, you can't do much

better than "weasel" when it comes to funny. Ever since the "greased

weasel" series of kernel releases I have been stuck for a good name.



This release is tentatively called the "stoned beaver" release (beavers

are _almost_ as good as weasels, as I'm sure Scott Adams would agree)....

Link: KernelTrap.