From Linus Torvalds <>
Date Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:59:53 -0700
Subject Linux 3.0 release

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
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/21/455

http://www.kernel.org/


mainline: 3.0 2011-07-22
stable: 2.6.39.3 2011-07-09

Linux kernel version bumped up to 3.0 as 20th birthday approaches
By Ryan Paul | Published about 6 hours ago

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of version 3.0 of the Linux kernel. Although the version bump, which takes the kernel straight from 2.6.39 to 3.0, suggests a release of some significance, it's actually a fairly modest incremental update.

Torvalds wanted to increment the major version number because he was growing frustrated with the large minor version numbers. He has been contemplating some changes to the current versioning scheme since 2008, but finally decided to act in May when the first release candidate for the new version was published.

He felt that rolling over to 3.0 would be a fitting way to celebrate the kernel's imminent 20th anniversary, but also joked that the "real" reason was that he could "no longer comfortably count as high as 40." He further clarified the nature of the version bump in the final release announcement, which was posted late last night to the Linux kernel mailing list.

"As already mentioned several times, there are no special landmark features or incompatibilities related to the version number change," wrote Torvalds. "It's simply a way to drop an inconvenient numbering system in honor of twenty years of Linux."

The Linux kernel was first introduced to the world in a mailing list post Torvalds wrote on August 25, 1991. The code was published on an FTP server the following month and released under the GNU General Public License the next year. The Linux Foundation is planning to officially observe the kernel's 20th anniversary at the LinuxCon event next month in Vancouver. I'm going to be there in person (you can see me at the LinuxCon Media Roundtable session) to participate in the festivities and cover some of the keynotes.

The previous versioning scheme for the 2.6.x series emerged around 2005 from the kernel's transition to shorter time-based release cycles. The major and minor version numbers were pinned at 2.6 and the third digit was used to indicate the actual release. With the new model, the major version is pinned at 3 and the second digit will be used to indicate the actual release number and the third digit will be used for stable releases.

"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," Torvalds explained in the release announcement.

Version 3.0 brings some noteworthy improvements for Btrfs, the next-generation Linux filesystem. It has gained basic support for scrubbing and an automatic defragmentation mechanism that can operate while the filesystem is in use. Another interesting change is the introduction of a just-in-time compiler that has been developed for the Berkeley Packet Filter system. In addition to these enhancements, there are a number of minor improvements throughout the kernel. For more details about the release, you can refer to the release report at the Kernel Newbies website.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/07/linux-kernel-version-bumped-up-to-30-as-20th-birthday-approaches.ars

Love my Linux and I can't wait to try the new stable version. I could really use the auto defrag ... I keep forgetting to do it manually. DUH

Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 6.4, a small utility distribution with specialist software for data rescue and disk partitioning tasks: "Parted Magic 6.4. Lots of updates, bug fixes and new features. Parted Magic's kernel is updated to 3.0 and SMP support was removed from the i486 kernel. Some people were having issues with the nouveau X.Org driver, so an option was added to the failsafe menu to revert back to the nv driver. If you add 'clonezilla' to the kernel command line at boot time, you are brought directly into Clonezilla. There are some major improvements in handling of Radeon and Mobile4 video cards. Some major updates on popular core programs as well. Firefox was updated to 5.0, Clonezilla to 1.2.9-19, and GParted to 0.9.0." Visit the project's home page to read the release announcement. Download (MD5): pmagic-6.4.iso-i686.zip (170MB), pmagic-6.4.iso-x86_64.zip (171MB).

2011-07-31

This is the first version I know of using the new Kernel 3.0. http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06815

I tried the Centos 6.0 but chose to stick with my Zorin 5.0 Lite. I like the LXDE with the LXDM. LXDM is so much more faster than GDM. With LXDM I can use GDM or KDE. This time Zorin went with Lubuntu instead of Ubuntu. The Zorin OS core of their 5.0 was GDM. The XFburn it has it a lite version of K3B and Posteler is a lite version of Thunderbird but so much faster. With Streamtuner I saved to favorites and the Audacious music player on Zorin brings up my Electronic selection of Smooth Rivera which is beautiful classical music mixed with nature sounds. It is freaking awesome.

Parted Magic 6.5 for 686 is already out. I am using it right now. It loads real fast and has the 3.0 kernel.

With the changeover supplied with Lubuntu Alpha 3 I am going from Kernel 2.6.38.10 to 3.0.0.8 which is a major change. The Alpha 3 has multiarch support and Lubuntu 11.04 but the Lubuntu 11.04 has now been accepted by Ubuntu as Lubuntu is now being changeover to being accepted by Ubuntu as one of its derivatives.

Lubuntu Alpha 3 crashed when installing so now I have Lubuntu 11.10 which is Oneiric as it shows in the Synaptic. I have a bad installation with a successful partial upgrade. A successful partial upgrade with a crashed installed. Now that is something that you don't see everyday.

I re-installed the Alpha 3 and now I have the 3.0.0.8 recovery header. It was at 3.0.0.7 and updated. It is closed to 3.0.0.9. I have been working with Launchpad and the Jockey program is working better. Jockey is still giving me trouble with loading the additional drivers for Nvidia. But at-least Chromium is not blinking on and off like before. I still have the Fatal Ramz error after the splash screen but have 11.04 on the SATA drive. If is definitely Oreiric 11.10 now on the IDE drive and Natty 11.04 on the IDE drive. So far I really can't tell any difference in the two except the 11.10 is supposed to have MultiArch support.

I re-installed the Alpha 3. I had Peppermint2 and Zorin OS 5 Lite. Let the Peppermint go and there really wasn't much difference in the two except I like Zorin better. Got to a successful 3.0.0.9 kernel. Just experimental drivers for Nvidia. Beta 1 is coming out September 1 and maybe it will be better. The tv section in Streamtuner2 2.0.8-5 just doesn't work now. I was getting to really like it. On the Alpha 3 it doesn't load and on the Zorin and the late Peppermint it loaded but doesn't and didn't work. Still got the Fatal Ramz in Alpha 3 on Lubuntu.

As Alpha 3 Lubuntu 11.04 Natty changed to Beta 1 Lubuntu 11.10 Oneiric with the change from just regular Lubuntu to Ubuntu Lubuntu the Ramz Error left. It is just now changing kernels from 3.0.0.9 to 3.0.0.10. I would have thought it would have been 3.0.1 but I guess is what I get for thinking. Still stuck on the experiment Nvidia drivers but atleast that was a change from the Nouveau drivers. At-least I got the Nvidia Icon but haven't really noticed the 2d or 3d capabilities, yet. Software Center doesn't function, yet. Now I just got invisible bugs instead of noticeable ones.

The most noticeable difference as far as burning is the Beta is only 642 mb cd as compared to the dvd it took to burn the Alpha.

Yay. Oneiriec finally got the Nvidia 280.13 drivers working. Lubuntu now reminds me of the Ubuntu I used to love. Streamtuner2 is still not working but the regular Streamtuner is. I downloaded the 9/7/11 Beta One but didn't need it. It had frozen up with the 173 driver this morning but it was fixed. I couldn't get into the desktop because of the close to tainted kernel but the developers took the taint out of it. LX panel needs some more work on it to put the panel on top but I can work with it on bottom. I got back to the desktop with the fix broken packages module in the extra kernel on the preboot splash. The Ubuntu Software Center is almost there. It blinks on then off. But being still on development and still Beta One it is working great. I am wondering if they even need a Beta Two. The nice thing is that it offers some of the same package I was fond of in Zorin OS 5 Lite which is built on Lubuntu which is Postler. I can't really tell that much difference in it and Sylphfeed which are email programs.

The kernel on the changeover from regular Lubuntu to Ubuntu Lubuntu has been gradually climbing the decimal points to 3.0.0.11.18. It is not actually using LXDE core any more. It has more to do with the LXDM. Software center and Streamtuner2 are still not working. I have been following the updates at http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package_logs
8 days to the Beta 2.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110912#upcoming
This has been a real experience watching the changes daily.

So much for the gradual change. Today the change from Beta1 to Beta2 changed from 3.0.0.11.18 to 3.0.4. Wow! I should have figured something was up when the recovery mode of 3.0.0.11.18 quit working. This will be my third download and burn to CD. At least with the Betas one doesn't have to burn to DVD. Makes one wonder what kernel it will be when the Distribution CD comes out October 18.

3.0.4 isn't there, yet on Lubuntu. It is still stuck at 3.0.0-11.18. Kernel 3.0.0-12.19 is almost here. The 3.0.0-11.18 recovery mode is still broke. Nvidia common is being worked on and doing well in Natty. Oneiric still has some major issues. Still trying to get Streamtuner2 and Software Center working. We did gain Ubuntu sound in Lubuntu. I am sure the developers are still having their work cut out for them in the changeover for Lubuntu to be a part of Ubuntu. LXDM has definitely let go of LXDE desktop but we still have the LXDE core. It is like a hybrid of Lubuntu and Ubuntu at this stage of the development.

3.0.0-12 was updated but 3.0.0-11 never got a recovery mode that worked and neither does 3.0.0-12 has one that works. But the recovery part of the Beta2 CD still works. Also, they are trying this thing called friendly recovery which comes up on the downloads to the update manager. Multiarch support was updated and now OpenSUSE is part of Lubuntu. I never saw that coming. I am curious what this Multiarch support thing will evolve into since some help is coming from Arch and Debian. I am wondering is Lubuntu is becoming a developer's free for all. No wonder it is taking time to catch up with the other versions of Ubuntu.

Now the software center works but you can't even turn the pc off. Glad I had another OS on another hard drive. Sure will be nice when they get it all fixed.

I downloaded the 9/29/11 beta version. It is like the blue screen of death on the desktop of the Lubuntu. Recovery mode of the kernel doesn't work. It reminds me of when Natty was new. Any updates or upgrades now are just off the CD as the recovery part of the kernel does work. Still at 3.0.0-12 and the 3.0.0.12.19 in't there, yet. I have been getting by with just sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade and sudo apt-get autoremove at the developmental stage. The autoremove command lets you know if there are updates or upgrades to be obtained. Openbox is there on the desktop but really doesn't do anything.