Re: [Sheflug] FYI ... 2.5.0 released.

["Chris J/#6" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I now have my greased turkey installed :) Actually (funnily), it seems
> that the http:// mirrors update quicker than the ftp:// ones... although
> that may have been round-robin dns playing tricks on me.
> 

For those that are interested ... here's Linus's reason for the greased 
turkey (from LKML):

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It'sa worthy follow-up to the 2.2.x "greased weasel" releases, but as
yesterday was Thanksgiving here in the US, and a lot of turkeys offered
their lives in celebration of the new 2.5.0 tree, the 2.4.x series got
christened a "greased turkey" instead of a weasel.

It may not have quite the same connotations of slippery speed as the
weasel, but then some people said the same thing about the penguin too.

                Linus
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Also, patching version.h might not be the best thing to do if you'd rather 
not have a greased turkey ... edit linux/Makefile instead and modify the line 
that says:

	EXTRAVERSION = ...

I think on a 'make dep' this'll fix-up version.h ... untested though; it's 
just a vaugely intelligent guess :)

Chris...

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