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On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> | Can't agree here. Im using 2.6 on my workstation for nearly 3 months |
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> | now, i had no problems using X except 2 weird "out of memory" kills, |
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> | which i cant reproduce or say its the kernel. |
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> You are using 2.6 on one box and it is working for you. That is not the |
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> same as "it will work reliably for the majority of people on the |
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> majority of boxes". Right now, 2.6 is not usable for many people. |
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So mark it unstable, mask it, whatever; the point is it's no longer a |
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'development' kernel and as such it should be moved to either the vanilla |
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sources category or given a new category, like 'vanilla-2.6-sources'. |
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Keeping in mind that kernel 2.7 will shortly be upon us and it will |
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supercede 2.5/2.6 as the official development kernel. |
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It doesn't make sense for us to re-define the long-standing Linux |
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terminology just because we disagree with Linus et al. regarding a |
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particular kernel's stability. |
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It's vanilla-sources. Gentoo does nothing but package it and track the |
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version number. If somebody's running it, chances are they're aware enough |
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of what they're doing and of the risks involved. |
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Stewart Honsberger @ http://blackdeath.snerk.org/ |
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Linux zeus i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux |
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15:11:41 up 134 days, 18:02, 1 user, load average: 1.19, 1.99, 1.78 |
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Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life |
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