News: 0000820522

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Three new stable kernels

([Kernel] May 14, 2020 13:45 UTC (Thu) (jake))


The [1]5.6.13 , [2]5.4.41 , and [3]4.19.123 stable kernels have been released. They contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree; users should upgrade.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/820523/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/820524/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/820527/

Brief History Of Linux (#24)
Linus Torvalds quotes from his interview in "LinuxNews" (October 1992):

"I doubt Linux will be here to stay, and maybe Hurd is the wave of the
future (and maybe not)..."

"I'm most certainly going to continue to support it, until it either dies
out or merges with something else. That doesn't necessarily mean I'll make
weekly patches for the rest of my life, but hopefully they won't be needed
as much when things stabilize." [If only he knew what he was getting into.]

"World domination? No, I'm not interested in that. Galactic domination, on
the other hand..."

"Several people have already wondered if Linux should adopt a logo or
mascot. Somebody even suggested a penguin for some strange reason, which I
don't particularly like: how is a flightless bird supposed to represent an
operating system? Well, it might work okay for Microsoft or even Minix..."

"I would give Andy Tanenbaum a big fat 'F'."