On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Christopher Smith wrote: > J. Paul Reed wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Dave Wreski wrote: > > > > > > When is 31 going to be finished? There are already pre-31 patches out.. > > > > all the way up to 5. > > > > > > They are up to pre-7 now. Looks like there's still a few problems to be > > > worked out, to be sure we have a nice stable kernel. The best thing you > > > can do at this point is to install pre-7 on all your machines, and test it > > > heavily, to be sure there are no bugs. And be sure to report the ones you > > > do find, so we're sure to have a stable one.. > > > > I would say for those of us who don't know how (or don't want to) mess > > with it, the BEST thing you can do at this point is install 2.0.29 and > > leave it at that. > > > > Every Linux production server I work on is 2.0.29. Not one single 2.0.30 > > in the bunch... > > Out of curiosity what's so evil about 2.0.30?
Nothing particularly evil; but if we're up to pre-patch 7, there were (are) obviously some problems with it (and I can't seem to remember what they specifically are; as I remember it was something to do with some esoteric networking thing or something...) I personally like the number 2.0.30 better than 2.0.29, but doesn't mean I'd run that kernel ;) I think I'll wait for 2.0.31, unless it turns out it has some nasty bugs too. As a friend of mine was explaining it, the non-development kernels are for the most part pretty stable, but if you find a bug, lots of things can break then :) Later, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Paul Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer, you and I need to have a little talk... --Chief Miles O'Brien, "Emissary," Star Trek: DS9 Geek Code and various other frivolities at www.verinet.com/~preed -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .