Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2014/08/26/linux_turns_23_and_linus_torvalds_celebrates_as_only_he_can/

Linux turns 23 and Linus Torvalds celebrates as only he can

No, not with swearing, but by controlling the release cycle

By Simon Sharwood

Posted in OSes, 26th August 2014 07:02 GMT

Linus Torvalds released issued Linux 3.17 rc-2 on Monday.

Linux-loving readers will note that releasing on a Monday is not Torvalds' style. He usually releases on Sundays.

The reason for the change is detailed on the Linux kernel mailing list as follows:

“So I deviated from my normal Sunday schedule partly because there wasn't much there (I blame the KS and LinuxCon), but partly due to sentimental reasons: Aug 25 is the anniversary of the original Linux announcement ("Hello everybody out there using minix"), so it's just a good day for release announcements.”

Which made yesterday the 23rd birthday of Linux.

The release candidate itself is unremarkable: Torvalds says it is “All over the place … and nothing in particular stands out.”

If you're really keen to have a look, Torvalds says it offers “60% drivers (drm, networking, hid, sound, PCI), with 15% filesystem updates (cifs, isofs, nfs), 10% architectures (mips, arm, some minor x86 stuff) and the rest is 'misc' (kernel, networking, documentation).” ®