Linux 2.4 Wins 4th Place... in Vaporware


Subject: Linux 2.4 Wins 4th Place... in Vaporware
From: Martin Schulze (joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de)
Date: Wed Dec 27 2000 - 19:41:20 CET


Muss euch was zeigen:

Slashdot Newsticker:
> http://slashdot.org/articles/00/12/27/1637214.shtml
>
> Linux 2.4 Wins 4th Place... in Vaporware
>
> Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 27, @12:37PM
>
> from the wired-must-have-been-bored-today dept.
>
> An anonymous reader says "Linux kernel 2.4 got itself at the
> 4th position in Wired Vaporware 2000 contest! The top prize
> goes to ... (check the link out for yrself ;)" I have a hard
> time calling something Vapor that I've been running on 30
> days up time, but what do I know. I guess a "product" without
> a release date just isn't something comprehensible.

Wired:
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,40484-2,00.html
>
> 4: A New Linux kernel: Linus Torvalds promised a new kernel for Linux,
> version 2.4, by December. Where is it? Er ...
>
> "The biggest Vaporware of 2000 has to be the 2.4 kernel," wrote Shawn
> Wallbridge. "As much as I like Linux, they have been saying 'soon,
> soon' for a really long time."
>
> "Where is it?" asked Niels Hansen.

Gruesse,

        Joey

-- 
The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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