Linux 4.15 Goes Further Into Overtime: Linux 4.15-rc9

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 4.15 Goes Further Into Overtime: Linux 4.15-rc9

Linux 4.15 isn't happening today as planned: there's simply too much recent activity and some bugs known to be outstanding. As such, we're up to the ninth weekly release candidate...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.15-rc9-Released

[Anvil]

begs the question, why doesnt the Great Man himself ( that being Linus ) do 9 RC's all the time? maybe the kernels wouldnt be so fucked if he did

[smitty3268]

begs the question, why doesnt the Great Man himself ( that being Linus ) do 9 RC's all the time? maybe the kernels wouldnt be so fucked if he did

Why not 10? Or heck, 11? How about 50 RCs? That would for sure make things better, right?

The obvious answer is that there's always a tradeoff involved in any decision.

[Anvil]

Why not 10? Or heck, 11? How about 50 RCs? That would for sure make things better, right?

The obvious answer is that there's always a tradeoff involved in any decision.

as long as he got the Major Bugs fixed during 9 RC's i'd be happy , the minor bugs can be fixed during a point release

[wizard69]

Not surprised one bit. There should be a whole month delay and that is only after heavy testing of the significant changes made.

[Anvil]

Why have RC's at all? Looks to me like Linus takes about two months no matter what and it's not like anyone but him gets to vote on the candidates...

Think I'll stick with RC8 for a while since everything's working with nVidia 384.111 and I don't need any more surprises. Heck, I might even skip the official release and go straight to 4.16-RC1 or RC2. 4.15 has no future anyway.

what makes you think 4.16 will have a future?

[dungeon]

I expected Linus to rename Fearless Coyote to something like Meltdowned Spectronious or even Kaiser re Trampolinicus Plus

[andre30correia]

Why have RC's at all? Looks to me like Linus takes about two months no matter what and it's not like anyone but him gets to vote on the candidates...

Think I'll stick with RC8 for a while since everything's working with nVidia 384.111 and I don't need any more surprises. Heck, I might even skip the official release and go straight to 4.16-RC1 or RC2. 4.15 has no future anyway.

it will be used by ubuntu 18.04 and next linux mint the most used distros out there but ok

[starshipeleven]

begs the question, why doesnt the Great Man himself ( that being Linus ) do 9 RC's all the time? maybe the kernels wouldnt be so fucked if he did

It's explained right in the article, in this case there was more activity and bugs than usual.

[deant]

better safe than sorry. good think with opensource+free software is that there is no pressure and no penalty and even no fixed release date. You just release it when you think it is good enough! And I admire that, i dont rush to use bleeding edge.