Re: Debian and Kernel Releases
On 21 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Yes. Still, I claim 2.2.x isn't stable enough yet for production use
> in a business environment with a lot of networking just yet. Let it
> level out a bit. Getting 2.2.latest into potato which will be released
> in 2 or 3 months (we hope) is a reasonable goal though. By then 2.2.x
> will be stable enough. Ofcourse this is exactly what Debian is doing,
> I should have pointed that out in my earlier message.
And I say that greatly depends on which features you rely on. I have had a
system running 2.2.3 at work since the day that kernel was released
without a tiny bit of trouble. Overall I agree that there are some nits
that are being cleaned up with 2.2 but I am of the school that says you
should encourage widespread use early to find and squash the bugs quickly.
Better that way than users waiting till slink is released, suddenly a few
hundred thousand people load it and a new crop of bugs are discovered that
SHOULD have been discovered a month ago.
It is a chicken-egg problem. People want to wait until most of the bugs
are found before using it but the bugs aren't found until people start
using it.
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