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Linux 2.6.24-rc8

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LT
Linus Torvalds
Jan 16, 2008

“I do hate doing -rc’s for so long, but I hate releasing when
not feeling it’s simmered enough even more. And the changes since
-rc7 are bigger than the changes between -rc6 and -rc7 were (partly
probably because people were still on vacation between -rc6 and
-rc7, so we had something of a small trickle come in
afterwards).

“That said, the changes here really aren’t that big, and the
shortlog is fairly boring…”

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Linus Torvalds

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