On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Aniartia wrote: > > > For the sake of mild curiosty, what's 'special' about the -ac kernels? > > Alan Cox distributes it (as opposed to the plain old Linus Torvalds > kernels). A lot of stuff Torvalds picks up was in -ac for some time > before, this is helpful in letting the lunatic fringe take care of the > major bugs before it goes into Linus's kernel...
Hey! Who are you calling lunatics? *grin* Actually, I've found that the current -ac trees have been more stable due to the use of a more reliable VM. Due to the latest Linux bug, everybody should upgrade to 2.2.19 or 2.4.12, and 2.4.12-ac3 has been doing quite admirably on my systems. Simon