hypnosec writes “After a week’s delay Linux 3.9 has finally been made available by Linus Torvalds. Last week Torvalds released the rc8 stating that he wasn’t ‘comfy’ releasing the final version yet and that ‘another week won’t hurt.’ Torvalds noted in this week’s announcement that last week had been very quiet as there were not many commits and the ones which were there were ‘really tiny’ so he went ahead with the release of Linux 3.9.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Linux 3.9 Released
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