On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 15:53, David Pastern wrote: > Hi guys and gals, > > Anyone tried the latest development kernels of their Debian machines (I > presume so)? I was going to have a fiddle with 2.5.50 (this baby is huge, > 37mb for the src). I know its development tree, but i've been hearing very > good things about it since 2.5.45 or so and I don't think 2.6 is that far > away from release to be totally honest. I know Debian is traditionally > stable and won't try new things until the development team is satisfied that > it's as bug free and stable as possible. My machine is just a dual booting > workstation, so it's not a *must be running* server or anything. > > Dave I presume that the kernel developers are playing with the 2.5 series, but there is a clear reason why the numbering is so clearly different between production kernel series (first sub digit even) and development kernel series (first sub digit odd) - steady performance there means that it doesn't seem to be panicking, that it isn't destroying file systems, that it can be safely debugged on a test box. I wouldn't put a development kernel on *my only box*, particularly a dual-boot system, unless it was part of the testing process. I *personally* wouldn't put a *.*.99 version on a non-test box unless I desperately needed some support only available in it. Would you run a beta of the next version of Windows on your only box? That is what running a development kernel at this point involves. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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