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Re: Officially drop Linux 2.0 support? (was Some /usr/doc NMUs coming up)



Wichert Akkerman <wichert@valinux.com> writes:

> I seriously object to this. There are very good reasons for using
> 2.2, and I certainly wouldn't put 2.4 on any critical server unless
> I really needed its features. The 2.2 kernel series has received
> *lots* more testing then 2.4 has, and people still discover nasty
> problems including all kinds of disk corruption in 2.4.

I recall talking with Andrea Arcangeli at the Pluto Meeting last fall,
and he certainly wasn't convinced of 2.4's stability at that point...

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