kernel 2.2.0

[Tam Ma <tam@wmi.com>]

Hi,

	Can someone tell me what is the different between the
"developement" version from the "stable" version of a kernel?

Is kernel 2.2.0 stable or dev?

What is the different between 2.2.0.tar.bz2 and 2.2.0.tar.gz?

What does it mean when there is and question mark (?) in front of the file
instead of the other symbol?

How come all I hear about is kernel 2.0.36 and kernel 2.2.0, what the
following version in between, are they not working????

	linux-2.0.4.tar.gz      08-Jul-1996 00:00   5.7M 
                ............. to ................
	linux-2.0.9.tar.gz      26-Jul-1996 00:00   5.7M 

and

	linux-2.1.0.tar.bz2    30-Sep-96 14:23   4.7M
  		............. to ................
	linux-2.1.99.tar.gz    01-May-98 00:21  10.7M 

I am kinda confused right now, just tell me what you guy know about these
things.

Thank you,
ttm
tam@wmi.com