Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: What is standing in the way of opening the 2.5 tree? | From | "Sujal Shah" <> | Date | 30 Oct 2001 16:59:25 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 16:39, lost wrote: > sounds like more complication to me. i personally think both do a great > job at getting the job done. sure there are problems with any source > tree. but adding more version numbers and turning kernels over to other > people doesnt seem like the solution for making anything more stable. [SNIP]
For my .02, I completely disagree with you. I'll explain in a minute.
> On 30 Oct 2001, Thomas Hood wrote: [SNIP] > > Having suggested, this, I'll remind everyone that Linus > > and Alan can do whatever the hell the like. Which is > > what I like about Linux. > >
This has to be a strength, to be honest. I'd take this further by proposing something else.
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To be honest, I think that any x.y.z kernel is "unstable." As we move into a situation with an even larger installed base, I think you're going to see a third tier become more evident: a) unstable, b) stable, c) vendor supported. Quite frankly, if I'm making recommendations to customers and clients for a linux installation, I typically recommend for them to go with a vendor supplied kernel and manage it through the vendor.
So, while I don't appreciate "massive" VM changes in the middle of my own testing and development :-), I always treat every new kernel iteration as potentially "unstable" and operate on the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" principle on my daily use boxes (unless something in a Linus or AC changelog looks too tempting ;-)
One can hope that the number of people reading this list plus those keeping up with most kernel releases know what they're doing, and are a far smaller number than those people running vendor supplied kernels and installations. If this isn't true today, I hope it is true at some point in the future.
Just my opinion,
Sujal
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