Oh happy day! Linus Torvalds has given the world Linux 4.10

Re: your driver accepted in the kernel as a start up company?

Have you tried the same for Windows?

If you are a start-up company how many Linux users will actually have your hardware and need a kernel driver module?

Most specialist hardware companies I know of ship a compilable module for any drivers - that can be part object code if you have IPR to protect, and then end users compile on demand. Yes, its a pain in some cases but you can automate that.

Re: I still like Linux, but...

"When I add of all that up I can't help wonder, with all due respect, if Linux hasn't grown into the very thing it once tried to fight."

You got to be kidding!

You have the source code to Windows 10, and direct access to the developers?

Linus actually created the Linux kernel, and thank God he controls things like a dictator. Imagine what would happen otherwise... A benevolent dictator, mind. He is only human, please cut him some slack.

Re: Missing icon for "you should be sooo glad this is a text rather than audio medium"

Cue the Edwin Hawkins Singers in ecstatic chorus

Re: -0.8

The dot spectator is not numeric it merely separates the version parts. Otherwise your increments would have to change by a factor of 10 every 10 versions.

<MajorVersion>.<Minor version>.<BuildNo> would be one of many different patterns.

The Firefox versioning system was one designed for people like you. Also the reasons I use chrome.

Re: -0.8

"oh , so 4.10 is bigger than 4.9" --- Prst. V.Jeltz

I do hope your job includes assigning IP addresses!

Re: -0.8

this convention has tweaked my ocd for years, but i've learned to live with it.

you're fighting a losing battle on this one.

Re: -0.8

As was clear from the article, there were a "huge" number of changes between 4.8 and 4.9, making it a huge release; therefore, Linus was expecting 4.10 to be a modest release. That expectation was not met; the number of changes between 4.9 and 4.10 was average. So 4.9 is still a bigger release than 4.10, even if 4.10 was a bigger release than expected.

Or, if you're referring to the fact that 4.10 comes after 4.9, and doesn't equal 4.1, don't think of the dot as a decimal point.

Re: -0.8

Actually, in the 21st Century world of rapid releases and agile development, the whole idea of having major/minor release numbering is broken.

Just axe the decimal point completely. Make it version 4009 and version 4010 and just start sequencing up by integers. Software releases are not like movie debuts anymore.

Re: Pity

"Seeing is not believing"

Wow. You most definitely won the internet twice over with that. Thank you for the hearty laugh!

Re: my 2.6.32 and 3.10 kernels work well

because perhaps you might need some of the stuff this kernel brings to the table?

Re: my 2.6.32 and 3.10 kernels work well

Excellent news, fredesmite! If it's working well for you, then I agree: Linux should stop.

Re: 808 and 810

Phones used to have a big piece of pyrolytic graphite tape to fix the thermal issues, but that stuff is crazy expensive and customers complained about hot phones when running low quality games. Now phones throttle after a few seconds and people give great reviews about how cool their phone runs.

Re: With new releases...

"I wish that they would put up on a site (kernel.org?) a nice 3 page treatise that explains the "highlights" of the release, in somewhat general terms."

Subscribe to the Linux Journal - it has a nice chatty section about whats happening to the kernel each month. It does not focus on releases and is not complete but its an interesting look at some of the things being discussed and why some decisions are made. And its about 3 pages....

Re: With new releases...

Ahhhh. Grasshopper .. if you cannot decipher the highly technical content of the new release from the changelog .. you must go back to sweeping the floor!