Switcher's guide for 2.6? [Re: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?]
On 18. December 2003 at 7:19AM +0100,
Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:49:10 -0700,
> "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote in message
> <[🔎] slrnbu25d6.ugk.spam@home.bounceswoosh.org>:
[...]
> > AFAIK, 2.6 is still being tested. It's not a "production" release,
>
> ..the truth just changed: ;-)
> finger @finger.kernel.org
> [zeus-pub.kernel.org]
> The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.0
Just confirmed the rumor on slashdot;-). Would this stable
version be as stable as the unstable early days of the 2.4
release? I fear that releasing 2.6 as stable would only
"encourage" freesoft developers and the occasional company
(e.g. nVidia and its binary-only 3D drivers) to stop supporting
2.4.
My main concerns revolve around video and optical storage. I've
read many horror stories about the ide-scsi stuff being "broken"
in 2.6. Is this true? I've also read that devfs is now
deprecated. In favor of what?
Is there a definitive switcher's howto or readme (URI) I should
consult? I'd usually use google for this. But as the issue's
still new, I expect to get lots of false positives (including
flamewar threads on the direction of kernel development).
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