Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | tabris <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 vs 2.6 | Date | Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:23:14 -0500 |
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On Saturday 13 December 2003 9:01 pm, coderman wrote: > 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: Somehow, working for 2/3, or even 75% of cases is less than encouraging to me.
Especially if I must not only set up boxes that I may not touch physically for days, weeks, etc. Or I suggest which kernel for other people to use, due to security fixes (which, iirc, not all 2.4 fixes have been forward ported yet), features, etc.
2.6 is... getting there. and I DO much appreciate the work of the developers. But with devfs deprecated, udev still coming into its own (Nice work GregKG btw); with the myriad of (user visible) input layer changes; the change in focus on initrds (it used to be a nice thing that only serious people use. Now, although still optional, it is now becoming much more important). Or mebbe consider that the last time I tried to install the new modutils (I'm blaming my distro vendor for this), it broke my 2.4 modutils, requiring me to boot with init=/bin/sh and fix it up.
Sure. little things, but altogether, they add up to a lot more work to learn.
<snip> > > 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. > - -- tabris - - When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours." -- Vine Deloria, Jr. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
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