Re: stable or not stable?
kuzminsk@hugin.sebs.net writes:
> The latest Linux kernel versions available on ftp.funet.fi are 2.0.30
> (stable) and 2.1.36 (unstable). These two kernels (2.0 and 2.1) are
> being developed in parallel, in an effort to avoid the stagnation we saw
> with 1.2 when 1.3 got going. The 2.0 kernel gets almost exclusively
> bugfix patches, though some new features have been added where the
> impetus was great enough. If you're using a 2.0 kernel because you want
> a stable kernel, it's in your best interest to use the highest-numbered
> 2.0 patchlevel.
That was true, and will be true again, when pre-2.0.xx schema starts
showing some results. But as of 2.0.30, it is not true! It isn't such
a bad kernel, but you can run into big problems at memory shortage
situations.
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