On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:06:47 +0100 Jakub Krajcovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Well, i personally agree to what Collins said in the first mail. I | really do think that the problems with the (supposedly) less-stable | 2.6 kernels less common.
If you think 2.6.x kernels are stable, try using an unpatched 2.6.1 kernel with a GB or Japanese (or possibly German) keyboard. | And people, how did you come to the conclusion that mostly | "kernel-knowedgeable" people use the 2.6 series?? I mean, i don't | think of myself as Mr Lamer, i can't hack the kernel in one afternoon | either (that was probably a bit uptight, but i hope you get the | picture). Most people who haven't built a kernel before seem to follow the install guide and pick a 2.4.x kernel. By "kernel knowledgeable", I'm just meaning people who have done a few kernel builds before and can manage the configuration and make sequence without needing extensive documentation. I'd be surprised if people who had never done their own kernel build were diving straight in with 2.6.x (and if they are, we have a problem). A lot of the 2.4.x questions that are asked here are related to user misconfiguration (hey, our docs aren't perfect yet...) rather than things that are actually wrong with the kernel. I'm ignoring the recent gentoo-sources screwups -- this isn't the right mailing list for discussing *that* issue... | I think that the main reason why to use the 2.6 kernel is the | performance increase especially in X, and the overall speed and i | daresay stability. And unless someone really plans to do weird shit | with the kernel, i doubt he will come across some significant | problems... Such as non-US keyboards being totally broken, you mean? :) (If anyone cares, this is fixed in 2.6.2-rc2.) Oh, and then there's that whole nvidia issue, which we can't even *try* to fix because they won't give us the source... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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