Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:44:38 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alastair Stevens <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.16-pre1 and "-rc" releases |
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Despite everything that's been said, I strongly support the idea of 'slowing down' a little, and having an -rc release before -final. Perhaps things will now slow down anyway, since 2.4.x has hopefully "made it" and won't be seeing radical changes under Marcelo's stewardship.
But like it or not, 3 of the last 5 releases from 2.4.x have had significantly embarrassing bugs / compilation issues, and I would hate for this sort of thing to start tarnishing the reputation of Linux in the media....
I have tended to track 2.4.x since the start, because it's been changing and improving so rapidly. I know I *should* wait a few days before building each new -final release, but let's be honest, lots of people don't or won't, so it's important that they be of good quality.
Recently, I've started to run -pre kernels on production machines, like some others by the sound of it. Let's slow down, consider an -rc release and nail this little recurring problem!
Cheers Alastair
(off to see if his 'greased-turkey' machine has safely got over the filesystem corruption problem...)
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