The odd version kernel series is used for development, while the even versions are "stable". development kernels will often eat your data, so if you dabble with the 2.5.x series make sure you don't have any important data, and keep backups. Otherwise the 2.5.x version is very cool to try and see what new features are coming for 2.6.x. The feature freeze for 2.5.x is October 31st later this year, so it sounds like we will have 2.6.x early 2003.
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 20:28, Dan George wrote: > Thats true. I just started dual booting two versions tried compiling the > kernel on one and found out a newer kernel (beta 2.5) just came out. I > thought 2.420 was the latest. See Linux Journal for August. Im trying > to upgrade to IPv6. > > On Tuesday 13 August 2002 13:56, you wrote: > > Who said anything about reinstalling? Just keep your old kernel in lilo > > (and a bootdisk in case you mess lilo up) and you can boot your old, > > working kernel if you mess up. > > >
