On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:20:28PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's good to be cautious, but as a cautious person I still use the > 2.6test9-11 for the last couple of months and it's stable and much > faster than 2.4.22+preemption I had just before it. I keep a 2.4 > kernel image around of course. > > What I'd recommend people to do: > > 1. Make sure your tools are updated to 2.6 (e.g. use debian "unstable", > not debian "stable"). > 2. Keep an extra boot media and a 2.4 kernel within a reach (I rely > on the August Penguin mini-disc for this, been carrying it in my > wallet since I got it :-). > > Since I tested the kernel, at least one or two bug reports of mine > were fixed in the final release (the "Missing initialization of > /proc/net/tcp seq_file" is a bug I reported and tested the fix) > > So being cautious is a good advice, but not to the point of not giving > it a try at all. > > One drawback I am worried about is the mentioning of a few dozens(?) of > security-related bugs which have to be forward-ported. Can anyone > comment about these? >
The main thing I'm waiting on in order to start using 2.6 is a port of laptop-mode (I keep hoping I'll have the time to do it myself, but it doesn't seem to free up ;-) Does anyone by chance know if such a port or equivalent already exists? > --Amos > > guy keren wrote: > >On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > > > >>On Thu, Dec 18, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Fwd: Linux 2.6.0": > >> > >>>Haven't seen this mentioned here yet, so, without further ado... > >> > >>Does anybody know of a good summary of the differences between the > >>latest Linux 2.4 versions, and 2.6? > > > > > >hold your horses... > >"remember the dragons, mike" (and kernel 2.4.0). according to the bug-fix > >list, the kernel is not realy stable yet. fixing races that can cause > >oops of various sorts? give it a few versions before you really try to > >use it. > > > >it took 2.4 more then half a year, from the 'stable' kernel, until a > >kernel that was actually stable (perhaps it was closer to a year? my > >memory is getting too short for this). based on past experience, it'll > >take a few more month before 2.6 will get to a stage where you'll dare put > >it on a production system that needs to work under some kind of stress.. > > > >this is not a prediction - just a catious look at the past. > > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
