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Linux 2.6.26-rc1 [Released]

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Linus Torvalds
May 5, 2008

“So this merge window was somewhat rocky in the sense that there
was a lot of arguments about it, but at the same time I at least
personally think that from a technical angle, we had somewhat less
scary stuff going on than has been almost the rule lately.

“Lots of changes, but nothing that really feels all that fragile
to me. Famous last words. I expect that the x86 PAT support (which
has been long in the making) has the potential to have some issues,
but the obvious problems were hashed out long ago, and while the
merge window already showed one bug, that one was fairly benign and
quickly fixed…”

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