2.6.27-rc8, "This One Should Be The Last One"

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:55:51 -0500

"So yet another week, another -rc," began Linux creator, Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.27-rc8 Linux kernel. He continued, "this one should be the last one: we're certainly not running out of regressions, but at the same time, at some point I just have to pick some point, and on the whole the regressions don't look _too_ scary. And -rc8 obviously does fix more of them." Linus went on to note that most of the changes since -rc7 are small, "and there aren't even a whole lot of them."

2.6.27-rc6, "Things Are Calming Down"

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:42:58 -0500

"The patches most people hopefully care about tend to be small details," noted Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.27-rc6 kernel. He continued, "and so more regressions should hopefully be closed now, some by just reverting the commits that caused breakage. I don't think anything special merits explicit comment, but you can get a flavor for things by scanning the appended shortlog." Earlier in the announcement email, Linus did note some specifics about which drivers caused the bulk of the patch:

2.4.37-rc1: 2.4 prepatch

admin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:41:36 -0500

The latest prepatch for the 2.4 Linux kernel tree is:

2.4.37-rc1

2008-09-07 16:41 UTC

2.6.27-rc5-git9: stable snapshot

admin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:01:02 -0500

The latest snapshot for the stable Linux kernel tree is:

2.6.27-rc5-git9

2008-09-07 12:01 UTC

Tux3 Acting Like A Filesystem

admin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:44:32 -0500

Daniel Phillips noted that his new Tux3 versioning filesystem is now operating like a filesystem, "the last burst of checkins has brought Tux3 to the point where it undeniably acts like a filesystem: one can write files, go away, come back later and read those files by name. We can see some of the hoped for attractiveness starting to emerge: Tux3 clearly does scale from the very small to the very big at the same time.

2.6.27-rc5, Fixing Regressions

admin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:48:03 -0500

Linus Torvalds announced the 2.6.27-rc5 Linux Kernel, noting that his "weekly releases" tend to happen every eight days, adding, "the bulk of it is all config updates, and with arm and powerpc leading the pack." Linus continued:

2.6.27-rc5: stable prepatch

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:10:57 -0500

The latest prepatch for the stable Linux kernel tree is:

2.6.27-rc5

2008-08-28 23:10 UTC

2.6.27-rc4, "Random Stuff All Over"

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:10:02 -0500

"Another week, another -rc," began Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.27-rc4 Linux kernel, continuing, "this time the diffstat is almost totally dominated by the addition of the musb driver that drives the MUSB and TUSB controllers integrated into omap2430 and davinci. That, together with the removal of the auerswald USB driver (replaced by libusb version) is more than half of the bulk of the patch, and obviously most users won't ever notice." Linus added:

AXFS, Advanced Execute In Place Filesystem

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:10:59 -0500

"I'd like to get a first round of review on my AXFS filesystem," began Jared Hulbert, describing his new Advanced XIP File System for Linux. XIP stands for eXecute-In-Place. The new filesystem received quite a bit of positive feedback. Jared offered the following description:

AXIP, Advanced Execute In Place Filesystem