Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: A users thoughts on the new dev. model | From | Florin Andrei <> | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:32:38 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 08:04, Evan Hisey wrote:
> As an end use of the vanilla > tree, I would like to point out that a large number of people and > projects rely on the vanilla kernel to be the stable tree do to the > overly varied and random patching nature of vendor supplied kernels
It looks like a communication problem.
Like someone else noted, 2.6 is currently more stable than the correspondent 2.2 and 2.4 versions, due to efforts by OSDL and others, and perhaps due to significant contribution from A. Morton, etc. So, when Andrew says that perhaps 2.6 is not going to be the most stable series, it does not mean "it's going to be the least stable series among 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, etc." In fact, even taking Andrew's words into account, it may well be that 2.6 is going to be more stable than 2.4 - the same 2.4 that "clueless" users were happily using on their production servers, while at the same time complaining about 2.6 being too "unstable".
It could be that the ones who are complaining have an oversimplified, "binary" view of how things are: - Caveman thinks 2.2, 2.4 stable is - Caveman thinks 2.6 stable is not Or, in other words, stability seems to be a magical property that's added or removed to/from a software based on their names/numbers/etc.
While the reality might well be more complex. So, 2.6 is not the most stable series. That's fine, vanilla "stable" was never the most stable - that title goes to the Red Hat Enterprise kernels and the like. But if 2.6 is more stable than 2.4, then by all means that's fine with me.
It seems to me that some users do not want to just use the most stable kernel. They want to use the most stable kernel AND that kernel must be the "stable" vanilla kernel. Sorry guys, but the vanilla kernel has many goals. Stability is only one of them.
-- Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
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