Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:01:10 -0800 | From | coderman <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 vs 2.6 |
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Jan Rychter wrote:
>So, as for me, 2.6 is a definite no-no. I see no advantage whatsoever in >running it, it caused me nothing but pain, and there is no improvement >that I could see that would justify the upgrade. > >So please be careful when making statements like that. 2.6 is *NOT* >stable enough nor ready enough for people to use it, unless those people >have a narrow range of hardware on which the 2.6 kernel has actually >been tested (translation: they have the same hardware as the main >developers do). > > For every person who has problems with 2.6, there are probably 2 others who have none, and enjoy the benefits of the new features. 2.6 works great for me, and one a number of hardware configurations including:
- PII-266 - SMP dual PIII-550 - M10000 mini-itx - 1.1 Ghz Athlon
all with a variety of video chipsets, USB devices, IDE / ATAPI disks and CD/DVD, sound cards, etc.
I doubt many of these are consistent with the main developers.
2.6 may not be usable for you, but this has no bearing on the utility of the branch for others. I have noticed benefits (mainly prempt, IPSEC, and the IDE device handling) which make it very worthwhile.
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