3.14 = pi which is always a special number. Who knows.
Besides Linux powers almost everything on the internet, (almost) all of the world's smartphones and tablets, routers, NASes, millions and millions of embedded devices, not to mention desktops, Chromebooks, clouds and developer machines.
If you raise your focus up past your hipster Macbook and decaffed latte, even a small Linux release is a pretty big thing.
> (almost) all of the world's smartphones and tablets
Almost none of which will ever run this particular Linux kernel release.
Given the regularity of the kernel release schedule, it seems to me that a release would have to include something particularly interesting (not just support for yet another processor and yet another file system) in order to qualify as newsworthy on a general interest news site like this one.
I can see the point of having a Macbook but what's the point of a decaffed latte? Surely it is just like drinking milk? There's no caffeine power to be extracted!
It's Linux :) Usually every release get on the frontpage.
Anyway, yes, I'd say that this one is a pretty big release, if only for the several BTRFS patches, DEADLINE mainlained, DPM support for newer AMD gpus and Intel Broadwell graphics (hd 6000?) support considered stable.
That file is a bit old, it hasn't been updated since 2009 - While it might not be production-ready, it's not as bad as it does sound (for example, the disk format is finalized, and shouldn't get any changes in the future).
As for the distros, I think none of the big ones default to it yet, but it's definitely a first-class citizen in OpenSUSE (and should be the default fs in OpenSUSE 13.2, according to the official plains).
The wiki hasn't been updated for the last few kernel versions either. I think the only place to get good information right now is the IRC channel, #btrfs on freenode. webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23btrfs
I sure don't know - I've been using it for a while on my desktop system without any problem, but my usage is pretty light (compress/autodefrag enabled, snapshots with snapper before and after every system update, beside that I just use it as a normal filesystem).
For what it's worth, it's considered production quality by SuSE with SLES.
