On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | Can't agree here. Im using 2.6 on my workstation for nearly 3 months > | now, i had no problems using X except 2 weird "out of memory" kills, > | which i cant reproduce or say its the kernel. > > You are using 2.6 on one box and it is working for you. That is not the > same as "it will work reliably for the majority of people on the > majority of boxes". Right now, 2.6 is not usable for many people.
So mark it unstable, mask it, whatever; the point is it's no longer a 'development' kernel and as such it should be moved to either the vanilla sources category or given a new category, like 'vanilla-2.6-sources'. Keeping in mind that kernel 2.7 will shortly be upon us and it will supercede 2.5/2.6 as the official development kernel. It doesn't make sense for us to re-define the long-standing Linux terminology just because we disagree with Linus et al. regarding a particular kernel's stability. It's vanilla-sources. Gentoo does nothing but package it and track the version number. If somebody's running it, chances are they're aware enough of what they're doing and of the risks involved. -- Stewart Honsberger @ http://blackdeath.snerk.org/ Linux zeus i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux 15:11:41 up 134 days, 18:02, 1 user, load average: 1.19, 1.99, 1.78 Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life --- OUT THERE?? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
