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Linus Torvalds has announced Linux kernel 3.0-rc1, this marks the end of 2.6.x series line which has 40 releases since late 2003.
To mark this event, Con Kolivas has made a tarball archive (163MB) of all 2.6.x releases available for download. The archive uses lrzip compression which can be installed from the standard Ubuntu apt-get repository.
Note that the size of of the archive after decompression would reach 10.3 GB!
Happy downloading, and hello Linux 3.0!
Google has made a playable guitar doodle to commemorate the birthday anniversary of Les Paul, the electric guitar inventor. Although lacking few notes as well as the ability to lengthen the notes– within hours, people have come ups with guitar tabs for for playing popular songs on this doodle.
Among the tabs:
Intro of One – Metallica – DJDG AJAG DJDG AJAGK DJDG SJSG AJAG
Godfather – DHKJH KHJH FGD
Smoke on the Water – SFG SFG HSFG FS
Twinkle-Twinkle little star – AAGGHHG FFDDSSA GGFFDDS GGFFDDS AAGGHHG FFDDSSA
Happy Birthday – AASAFD AASAGF AAKHFDS KKFGF
Yankee Doodle – KKL; – K;L – KKL; – KJ – KKL; – FDSA – JGHJ