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SubjectRe: 2.0.31 : please!
On Jul 16, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I think a "stable" kernel should be tested by some ten people with
> > reasonably average configurations for about 24 hours.
> > A "production" kernel should at least compile.
>
> 10 people. Some of the bugs that show up in 2.0.x show up in configurations
> that maybe 1 in 1000 or 1 in 10,000 users have and perhaps only after a
> week of continual load. On a 10 user sample 2.0.30 is probably rock solid
>
> A lot of people don't seem to realise just how tricky it is building a
> stable across all platforms/configurations system.

well spoken. and I'd like to add: ... how tricky it might be
to fix bugs which one can't reproduce himself!


Harald
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