Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Release of 2.4.21 | Date | Sat, 22 Mar 2003 08:27:04 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > Unless the system has to run 24/7, which a desktop machine usually > > doesn't have to, I don't see why testing 2.5 on it isn't a > > possibility. > > Because desktop systems usually don't feature the notion of a testbed, > read an environment in which dangerous changes can be tested without > severe loss of important data.
So why did you trim the part of my quote that said that production systems should always be backed up anyway?
> I would never ever boot a 2.5.x kernel on my notebook or on any other=20 > machines without preparing a different harddrive for instance, YMMV > though.
It's not exactly much work to put a different disk in a machine. With a notebook, it might be 30-45 minutes work dismantling it, but on a typical desktop, about 2 minutes, and on a rackmount server, probably 60 seconds.
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