Linux 3.0 release

LKML ^ | 21 July 2011 | Linus Torvalds

[ShadowAce]

So there it is. Gone are the 2.6.<bignum> days, and 3.0 is out.

This obviously also opens the merge window for the next kernel, which
will be 3.1. The stable team will take the third digit, so 3.0.1 will
be the first stable release based on 3.0.

As already mentioned several times, there are no special landmark
features or incompatibilities related to the version number change,
it's simply a way to drop an inconvenient numbering system in honor of
twenty years of Linux. In fact, the 3.0 merge window was calmer than
most, and apart from some excitement from RCU I'd have called it
really smooth. Which is not to say that there may not be bugs, but if
anything, there are hopefully fewer than usual, rather than the normal
".0" problems.

And as I already mentioned yesterday, I'm hoping the 3.1 merge window
will be calm too, because due to the delays the latter half of the
merge window will fall into my vacation time. I briefly considered
simply waiting two extra weeks, but quite frankly, that wouldn't
really have solved anything (it would have made the merge window
instead fall into LinuxCon and my divemaster weekends).

So I'm going to try to keep to the normal two-week merge window, but
if it ends up being too busy for me to keep up, I may end up extending
the window just so that I can merge everything. However, even if that
happens, that will *not* mean that I will accept big pull requests for
longer, it just means that I may end up delaying things to catch up
with timely merge requests.

That said, judging by past experience, the summer merge windows often
tend to be quieter, so maybe I worry needlessly. Much of Europe is
starting to go on vacation, and parts of the US are being fried to a
crisp, so maybe 3.1 will be calm too.

Anyway, what has changed since -rc7 is mainly some RCU interactions
with the scheduler, and the RCU problems should hopefully be behind
us. The pathname lookup race is also fixed. There's a few DRI fixes
(i915 modesetting, and some Radeon fixes), and Al walked through some
more esoteric VFS d_lock issues. Other than that it's really pretty
small and random.

The shortlog from -rc7 is appended, the bigger "everything since
2.6.39" list is obviously unmanageable.

Linus

[ShadowAce]

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The number of the release shall be known as 3.0. 3.0 shall be the number of the release. Not 2.7, not 2.9, but 3.0 shall be the number. And a very good number it is.

[ShadowAce]

...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, “O LORD, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy.” And the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu... [At this point, the friar is urged by Brother Maynard to “skip a bit, brother”]... And the LORD spake, saying, “First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.” Amen.

[for-q-clinton]

What makes 3.0 special? Wondering if now is the time to try out linux again.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Amen.

[ShadowAce]

It’s just an evolutionary step, mainly to get away from the large 2.6 versions.

[isthisnickcool]

In the early 90's I was building EISA based systems using multiple I/O cards and lots of drives. Back then that was a pretty wild thing to do. And not cheap. A 500 meg drive was expensive. Chaining bunches of them together made for an interesting situation. I'd take large CPU cases and morph them in to drive carriers. It looked like Frankensteins monster with all the cables running back and forth. The main box with the motherboard, I/O cards, etc. got so hot we had to pump cold air in to it to keep it working.

We were using SCO. One day a guy posted something on the MINIX news group about building his own OS. We started chatting and I thought what he was trying to do was interesting and kept in touch. Eventually there were distributions. The initial ones were dozens of 5 1/4 floppies. Even in the early days a built system was very stable.

Linux (he pronounces it LEEEE-NUX) has come a long way. It has been a fun ride......

[Bikkuri]

Ok.. after reading about Linux from you after all of these years.. I finally tried it out again (last time was about 2000.. Red Hat).. didn’t like it then.

This time is went VERY smoothly on install.. and was connected to the net in less than 5 min. The BIG prob I have now is that when the system boots, I don’t see the duel boot option (Win7 was installed first).. It boots directly to Windows.

I have been researching the net for 4 days now, have seen the same problem mentioned many times.. the few that spent time answering the questions, most helped many people with the problem.
None of them worked for me.. am thinking about reinstalling again to see if that works (fingers crossed), but not expecting it to.

The only way to run Ubuntu now, is to boot from the USB Flash drive.. use the ‘try it out’ boot :/

Anyway, I can see things have come a LONG ways since I have last tried it out :)

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Read this:

http://www.electrictoolbox.com/linux-grub-boot-loader-options/

It might be something as simple as removing hiddenmenu from your grub.conf. And pressing any key (not the any key :) ) in a short time window to get to the boot menu.

[bajabaja]

Search for

dual boot

not, as you posted “duel” boot. Microsoft operating systems like to take first place in the startup, but with a verion of it already installed many linux distributions can be installed second. Try linux Mint. It should detect that you have a Microsoft product installed already and then give you a dual boot option on start up. Works plenty nice on my XP / Mint Thinkpad (R52). See if a search for “dual boot Mint” gets you to a happy and blessed place.

[kevao]

I installed PCLinuxOS on an older desktop about one month ago. My first experience with a Linux system, and it’s been fantastic. The *only* time I’ve needed my Windows machine in the past month has been for streaming NetFlix. And, from what I understand, Linux users will soon be able to stream NetFlix as well.

[FLAMING DEATH]

I’ve been using Linux since 2004 or so. The number of sites that run exclusively on Windows is miniscule, and still getting smaller each day. I can even watch ESPN3 on Ubuntu, and have been able to for over a year.

The underlying OS is becoming less important and the browser more so.

Although, I did write Veoh.com a nasty letter, incredulous that they require a Windows-only plugin to watch some of their content. I eventually got it to work in Linux, but there’s no reason for that when tons of sites have no problem with any operating system that you choose to use.

[dayglored]

Holy Hand Grenade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk

Amen!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ShadowAce.

[Bikkuri]

lol.. good catch, sorry about the misspell/typo :p

[Bikkuri]

I think that something somewhere is actually looking past (skipping) grub :/

I never even see grub come up; post boot.. Windows.. all within about 8 seconds :/

Full log-in to windows about 28 sec

I am missing something here.. This is a fresh install of Windows.. and immediately after, the install of Ubuntu...

something is screwy here (btw, it took me 1 1/2 days just to figure out how to get the boot on my new SSD, first time experience with SSDs.. what a pain in the azz >.<

Love the SSD, but I am wondering if it has anything to do with the prob (personally, with my PC experience, it doesn’T have anything to do with it.. but.. in the PC world, we never know :p )

[Bikkuri]

PCLinuxOS? I will check that out too :D

ty ;)

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I am missing something here.. This is a fresh install of Windows.. and immediately after, the install of Ubuntu...

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Well that’s the right order for sure - if you do linux then windows - windows will try to take the whole system and lock you out of linux.

I think the approach needed here would be to boot into linux with your flash drive and have a look at all of your partitions (fdisk or the equivalent), have a look at grub.conf, and maybe somebody else can specify some other things to look at.

Failing this there is always the reinstall linux option.