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Re: upgrading my kernel to 2.2.x



On 06-Apr-99 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
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> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote:
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>> Which 2.2.x kernel is considered stable?  Are there any special things I
>> need
>> to do to upgrade from 2.0.36 or is the procedure still the same?
> 
> They are all supposed to be stable.  That's the point of the "stable tree"
> of kernel development.  If the number after the first decimal point in the
> version number is even, then it is a stable kernel.  If it's odd, then
> it's a development kernel, considered unstable.  You might as well run the
> latest version.  No kernel will ever be completely bug-free (it's
> software, after all...) but presumably there has been more time to fix the
> bugs since it's a more recent release.

Sometimes I embarrass myself.  It was fairly obvious and I missed it.

Thanks

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Andrew

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