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Re: The Palo Alto Tea Party




 > > Or we can throw our own party when Linux 2.2 goes out! What do you
 > > say?
 > > 
 > > (Judging by the current pace I'm afraid we'll be able to combine the
 > > two events :-)
 > 
 > judging from WHAT current pace? are you even testing kernels? I remember
 > we all laughed at Linus back in March when he said to a full room of
 > people that 2.2 will be out by june, then at the "Future of Linux" meeting
 > in the summer, he didn't risk giving an ETA better than "RSN", but since
 > then I have compiled and run systems on the latest beta kernels, and I can
 > tell you that the last report this week saying "Before christmas" is
 > finaly believable.

Gee, I was joking of course. I'm using the development kernels myself
for a long time (since 2.1.102) and I know very well that they are
stable. It's just that the date gets pushed back all the time, and I
remember that at some point Linus declared a feature freeze after
which new features were added nevertheless... I wasn't trying to flame
Linu{x,s} or something. There even was a lottery (publicized on
Slashdot) that invited people to guess when they think that 2.2 will
go out. I naively voted for mid-November.. I guess I'll go vote again.


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