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SubjectRe: A users thoughts on the new dev. model
This is malarkey, 99.9% pure FUD.  I personally use just about every 
kernel revision there is that is "newest", i.e. I use 2.4.x until 2.5
appears then I switch to 2.5.x. I may skip a few versions here and
there due to frequent releases or a known brown bag release. However by
far and large even the development or "unstable" line of releases as
some people have a bad habit of calling them, are far more reliable than
Windows.

I use odd.x releases even on my servers. Every once in a while there's
a significant bug in code that I'll have an issue with that can't be
worked around. So I avoid that version.

In short, your statement is pure bullsh*t, because there is very little
code put out that is actually a messy or unstable release. Most bugs
are quickly fixed, worked around, or avoided for that person because
that feature isn't really such a necessity. Linux (*nix) gives you a
LOT of ways to get a particular task done but people have this penchant
for finding a way that is broken and hyping/harping it up to make a big
issue out of it instead of just reporting the bug and getting the job
done in a different fashion.

"Oh my gawd it's a bug, let me piss on everyone's doorstep and make
caustic remarks on LKML about horribly broken code. Never mind you that
I can probably get it done another way."

Give the developers a little credit, we all make mistakes; they happen
to fix theirs pretty fast and they're downright honest about fessing up
to them.

David

>>From the LWM story i understood that linux will be like windows:
>lots of "features" but no stability, except if you use a
> distribution kernel. And that seriously made me think about
> using another free *nix for a stable system.
>
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