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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Saturday 12 Sep 2009 15:54 : \____
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Terry Porter belched out
> this bit o' wisdom:
>
>>
>> begin{quote}
>> After a development cycle lasting exactly three months (June 9 to
>> September 9), Linus Torvalds has released the 2.6.31 kernel. This cycle
>> saw the inclusion of almost 11,000 different changes from over 1100
>> individual developers representing some 200 companies; a minimum of 16%
>> of the changes came form developers representing only themselves. In
>> other words, over the last three months, Linux kernel developers were
>> putting 118 changes into the kernel every day. That is a lot of work.
>> ...
>> end{quote}
>>
>> http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf/2009/09/10/2631-is-out/
>
> Also interesting from that article:
>
> The 2.6.32 kernel should come out sometime around the beginning of
> December. It will include even better ATI Radeon support (with proper 3D
> acceleration, hopefully), the much-publicized "hv" drivers
> from Microsoft (though those may be removed before too long since the
> developers seem to have lost interest in maintaining them), . . .
>
> What, Microsoft half-heartedly providing "Checkbox? Check!" Linux support?
> Say it ain't so!
Good riddance to the Trojan. The man who made a lot of noise about it (Ramji
Panji) is leaving Microsoft too.
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