Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: New Linux Development Model | From | Marcos Marado <> | Date | Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:45:04 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 16:03 +0200, caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, jerome lacoste wrote: > Because i like to test new kernels. On 2.4 I run the vanila kernel and a > test kernel. When something went wrong on a test kernel was always a > stable kernel to use. > 2.6 looks a lot like 2.5. New features are added very quickly without much > testing. Of course there is Andrew's -mm tree but this one sometimes > is too broken. > For me linux looks now like it has one unstable tree (2.6) which is > something like -ac was in days of 2.4 and -mm was in the days of 2.4 > -2.5 and -mm which looks like it became very unstable. > This is what i saw ok lkml (maybe my view is distorted). > I'll stop ranting and try both of them because i have some bugs to report.
Man, -mm are unstable kernels, 2.6.x[.y] are the stable ones.
> The 2.6.x.y kernels sometimes are almost no different from 2.6.x
That's true, and good. the .y is the -stable tree, that is supposed to add only stability and security fixes.
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