News: 0000832304

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Six stable kernels

([Kernel] Sep 23, 2020 19:24 UTC (Wed) (ris))


Stable kernels [1]5.8.11 , [2]5.4.67 , [3]4.19.147 , [4]4.14.199 , [5]4.9.237 , and [6]4.4.237 have been released with important fixes. Users should upgrade.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/832305/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/832306/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/832307/

[4] https://lwn.net/Articles/832308/

[5] https://lwn.net/Articles/832309/

[6] https://lwn.net/Articles/832310/

> > Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I
> > should use Linux over BSD?
>
> No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on
> creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it
> certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able
> to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the
> mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the
> name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too
> technical.
-- Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux