heh... but even if you want to talk about "bug free" versus "stable", it's
STILL not true!
before a feature freeze (a "pre" version of an odd numbered kernel), tons
of new features go into a kernel.
in 2.4.1, new support went in for reiserfs. certainly there are bugs in
this new feature.
what you're saying that "2.4.1" has less bugs than "2.4.0" just because 1 is
greater than 0? i would say it has MORE bugs, since it has new features
which haven't really gone through a 10 million person test cycle. it's only
been tested by a few people until it makes its way into a production kernel.
as another example, a class of buffer overflows were introduced into 2.2.16
and didn't get caught until 2.2.18. certainly 2.2.16 isn't necessarily more
bug free than 2.2.15?
i guess what i'm saying is that it's hard to say whether one kernel is more
or less stable or bug free than another. it's too big of a program, and
gets too much features added with each version to say "2.4.1 is less buggy
than 2.4.0". new features == new bugs.
in fact, consider that 2.4.0 lived life for almost 6 months as a feature
frozen 2.3.whatever-pre-whatever. i'd be willing to bet that 2.4.0 was
pretty darn bug free! then linus and alan screwed it up by adding more
features.
;-) just playing devil's advocate here.
pete
On Tue 27 Feb 01, 11:01 AM, William Kendrick said:
> >
> > even numbered kernels are called stable.
> > odd numbered kernels are call beta.
> >
> > or were you giving us the official bill-kendrick kernel versioning? :)
>
> I guess I'm thinking "bug free" not "stable." :)
>
> -bill!
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