begin: William Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:29:47AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> <snip> 
> > stable / unstable refers to the code that goes into the kernel.  a stable
> > kernel is a codebase that doesn't change.   an unstable kernel codebase is
> > one which has new features going into it with each sublevel.
> 
> ...and, presumably, might disappear by the time the Kernel is called 'stable,'
> right?
 
i can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but i'm sure they've
had ideas that just didn't pan out.

pete

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