On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 14:25, Benjamin Coles wrote: > Back when 2.2 kernel series was out, nobody thought even began to think > about upgrading their kernel to 2.4 series until 2.4 became 2.4.10 or > better. This was because of the problems known to happen in the early > 2.2 and 2.0 series. Lately with this new 2.6 kernel things seem much > more mature but even I can be counting my chickens before they hatch. > > Gentoo on the other hand along with many other competitors follows the > same suite of testing. We test until it can't be tested anymore and by > the time it's done a new version might be out but we can apply 90% > entire gentoo patchset with only minor fixes for the remaining 10%. Why > should Gentoo put on it's users a product that doesn't work for them. > This makes users happy to have something running and if your brave you > can run 2.6, we offer both kernels so the user's happy and we get some > bug reports to fix 2.6 bugs as they come. When we feel confident that > it's running smooth and we'll get only a few bug reports for making it > the next vanilla kernel, that's when we'll make it vanilla.
there is no patchset in vanilla-sources. I spoke about vanilla not about gentoo-sources. -- Christian Gut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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