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Linux 6.5-rc5

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 07, 2023

Kernel prepatch 6.5-rc5

Linus has released 6.5-rc5 for testing. ""Things continue to look pretty normal. Not a huge number of commits, and most of the ones here are tiny"".

Linux 6.5-rc5

Things continue to look pretty normal. Not a huge number of commits,

and most of the ones here are tiny.

The biggest patches tend to be soem of the continuing data-race

annotations in networking, and a couple of network drivers with

slightly bigger patches, but nothing that looks all that scary. And a

lot of the patches here are trivial one- and few-liners.

The biggest hiccup last week was that I had correctable ECC memory

errors in my machine and had to replace my DIMMs once again. But at

least this time I got nice warnings about how my memory was going bad,

so it was only a fleeting annoyance.

So go test. We still have a few regressions that are being chased, but

it's only rc5 and things look like they are under control.

Linus

Happy Birthday, Linux!

Torvalds did point out a few years ago on his Google+ stream that most people associate the "birth" of Linux with his initial announcement on August 25, 1991. However, he goes on to point out that the actual code dump for Linux 0.01 didn't actually occur until a couple of weeks later.

From there, of course, we know how Linux has spread, from the first distributions being written in 1992 (Slackware), to Mandriva in 1998, to our own Texstar branching out and establishing PCLinuxOS in 2003, to today, where there are over 60 million Linux users, by some estimates.