Linux 5.5 Released

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erek

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Pretty cool

"So despite the slight worry that the holidays might have affected the
schedule, 5.5 ended up with the regular rc cadence and is out now.

That means that the merge window for 5.6 will open tomorrow, and I
already have a couple of pull requests pending. The timing for this
next merge window isn't optimal for me - I have some travel and other
things going on during the same two weeks, but hopefully it won't be
all that noticeable. But there might be random timezones, odd hours,
and random delays because of that. I try to avoid scheduling things
during the merge window, but hey, it doesn't always work out, and I'd
have to delay things by two weeks to avoid the conflicts, which just
doesn't seem worth it.

Particularly since it's not necessarily going to be a problem to begin
with. We'll see.

Anyway. Go out and test 5.5, and start sending me those pull requests
for all the new development that is ready,"

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wigRZ6TSJU09bMk3Df2DiOw83B7TrQUq+iXroQCK5EVAQ@mail.gmail.com/T/
 
I looked on the ios app store and didn't see it, am i doing something wrong?


No but seriously, this looks pretty neat, really wish i had an extra system to toy around with, maybe i can dig up an extra hard drive
 
I remember back in the day when we installed our email and web server using one of the distributions (I don't remember which, but the choices were pretty much limited to debian, redhat, suse, caldera or slackware) and we would manually update the kernel with each update, as well as compiling for each upgrading gcc, sendmail, etc. Fun times I don't miss at all.
 
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I remember a statement about odd numbered subversion being testing tree and even number being stable tree. Just looked at kernel.org and see long term support for *.*9 versions. Luckily I just don't care anymore. F Slackware, and F Gentoo, I'm fine with apt-get update / apt-get upgrade / yum update.
 
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