[OT] Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug

[Tom H]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Jordon Bedwell <jordon at envygeeks.com> wrote:
> On 07/21/2011 07:53 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 21 July 2011 06:09, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Pardon my naiveté, but what is Hyper-V and what would it do for me?
>>>
>>> It's Microsoft's server virtualisation solution. Utterly unimportant
>>> and irrelevant to desktop Linux users; it only runs on Windows 2008
>>> Server.
>>
>> It's important for running Linux (server) guests on Win2k8.
>>
>> At the moment, only RHEL and SUSE are officially supported, but I
>> vaguely remember reading an article that claimed that MS is working on
>> adding Ubuntu to that list.
>
> Not just Linux servers.

Of course, Windows and BSD (and Solaris?) guests too but the Hyper-V
kernel stuff is for Linux guests...
.