LinuxSnap for Tuesday 7/23/13
Linux News Headlines
Linux 3.11-rc2 Released
The second release candidate for Linux 3.11 was made available last Sunday. From the release announcement:
So it’s been another week, and -rc2 is out there.
The patch looks a bit odd, because by bulk 95% of the patch is just
the removal of the CSR staging driver that wasn’t getting any
traction, so the diffstat (and the dirstat in particular) is not very
interesting or readable, since that driver removal basically
overshadows everything else. But I do admit to love seeing code
removal patches.And of the rest of the patch, a noticeable part is all those
one-liners all over that just remove the __cpuinit markers that people
agreed were just more pain than gain to maintain. We had already made
the markers be no-ops earlier, so they didn’t matter for code
generation, and here in rc2 they get actually removed.
Read the full announcement here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/21/100
Articles of Interest
The coming push for open source everything – infoworld.com
Donate your Android device’s processing power to science with BOINC – engadget.com
Today in Linux History
Mandriva (Mandrake) Linux 5.1 Released (1998)
On July 23rd, 1998 the first version of the Red Hat-based distro Mandrake was released. Once a very popular distro, its name was changed to Mandriva in 2005 and eventually converted to a commercially available distro last year.
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