Messages in this thread | | | From | "Massimo Cetra" <> | Subject | RE: My thoughts on the "new development model" | Date | Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:57:34 +0200 |
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> There seems to be a lot of strange notions on this concept of > 'stable'. The only thing that makes a kernel 'stable' is > time. Not endless bugfixes. Just time. The idea of stable > software is software that not going to give you any suprises, > software that you can trust. > > That's NOT the same as bug free software. For a start, > there's no such thing. For another, many bugs are perfectly > acceptable in a production environment as long as they're not > impacting. (The linux kernel is a very large piece of work. > Few installations would use even 20% of the total kernel > functionality). >
Yes, perfectly right. You would agree (for example) that this:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Danny Brow wrote: > > Ok, thank you for the feedback, glad you fixed your problem. > Now I guess we just need for someone to find out why > LEGACY_PTYS breaks > ssh (and other apps?) with kernels >= 2.6.9, but I'm afraid > thats beyond
Does not reflect the behaviour of a stable kernel. Yes, of course, there's the workaround. But I don't think this bug is not impacting.
I repeat once again. To me something is going in the wrong direction.
Massimo
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