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...seems to be going quite fast. I can remember only a few weeks back there was a new revision of the kernel each day. I got the latest back in ...
  1. 05-05-2006 #1
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    Kernel Development...

    ...seems to be going quite fast.

    I can remember only a few weeks back there was a new revision of the kernel each day.

    I got the latest back in January (2.6.15). It's now 2.6.16.14.

    Maybe I just didn't see the speed of it until I got an rss feed from kernel.org?

    Surely It's not just me... or am I just going crazy?
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    It's quite fast, though they are having problems with bugs getting into the kernel, Andrew Morton (-mm patchset) says here they may need a bug squashing release soon to get rid of many long standing bugs.
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    add to that various patch sets, like -mm, -ck (Con Kolivas patchset, my favourite - does wonders for interactivity). Given the size of the kernel it's quite understandable that one or more parts are changed, oneday it's some fs stuff, the other some new driver for some networking card, then there's an update to the latest stable ALSA drivers, then ... etc (wouldn't surprise me if there's enought parts for it to be 1 per day of teh year) the kernel is huge, and it's not just once arch, virtually any CPU out there is supported by linux, at least I think that linux is the worlds most ported kernel ever - maybe it should be in the guiness book :P (I think the NT kernel is has ported to IA-34, IA-64, AMD64/EM64T and I think NT 4 was ported to Alpha (iirc I've read somehwere about an emulation layer that was faster than the hardware, some sort of compabillity for running alpha apps in NT4))
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    I know it's not that simple, but why don't they just take some time out to do just that. Fix the bugs. Not saying that they do that already.

    Would they (the dev's) put the bug fixes in the actual publically-released code, or would they put it in the dev's kernel series (2.7 or whatever it is)?

    My mind is blinded from reading up on the FreeBSD kernel, excuse anything random or out of place.
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  5. 05-17-2006 #5
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    AFAIK, new features go into development kernels (there is no 2.7 kernel yet, but into the release candidates for the 2.6 series). Then they fix bugs, and release the new kernel version with some new features and the bug fixes.
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