Richard Adams wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > Hi Philips,
> > I dare say you'll see an announcement when Linus deems 2.4.3 is
> > ready. If you want to be on the bleeding edge, you could always try the
> > 2.4.3-pre patches from the 'testing' directory, but I expect I'll get
> > flamed for suggesting that on a newbie list.
> > ./Ken
>
> Flame? no, but one should look at it this way.
>
> If one wants his machine to lockup periodicly, have programs segfault due to
> alterations in the kernel code, all sorts of configuration problems due to the
> need of newer kernel utils which need to be installed, possably the need to
> upgrade libarays at regular intervals, then i suggest one uses a 2.4.xx-pre
> kernel or whatever.
>
You are wrong.
2.4.* is quite stable on many boxes.
I'm monitoring linux-kernel list for possible problems and troubles. As I see
ordinary configuration (no SCSI, UP, no USB, no devfs) are running fine for
many peoples including me.
I've upgraded smoothly to 2.4.3pre4 without any problem.
> The rule of thumb is, running a development kernel is not for the light of
> heart, so the reason that the club of people here on this list say things about
> development kernels lies in the reasons above.
>
FYI - 2.4 is stable branch.
I want to be up-to-date with stable branch.
On linux-kernel I see Alan Cox's posts about ac series - but I do not see any
news from Linus. I suppose he is using some other list to communicate with
maintainers.
> If one is a newbie and needs to ask questions on this list then using a
> development kernel is out of the question period.
>
> No offence is meant to anyone by this mail, its just the facts.
>
"possibly may be" (c) Bjork.
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