2.6.26, "A Longer-Than-Usual Release Cycle"

Courtesy KernelTrap - Kernel news  Mon, 07/14/2008 - 08:13

"It's been almost three months since 2.6.25 (87 days to be exact, I think), making this a longer-than-usual release cycle.

Or maybe it just feels that way, and we're always getting close to three months these days," said Linux creator Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.26 Linux kernel , adding, "but it's out there now." He continued:

"The diffs from -rc9 are pretty small, with with the bulk actually being Documentation updates (almost 80% is just added docs).

The...


 

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