Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 05:30:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 05:30:49 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:31248 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 05:30:38 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.2 To: peter@cadcamlab.org (Peter Samuelson) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:33:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: kerndev@sc-software.com (John Heil), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Kernel Mailing List) In-Reply-To: <20010221211330.A21010@cadcamlab.org> from "Peter Samuelson" at Feb 21, 2001 09:13:30 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > If you want stability, run the real Linus 2.4. If you want all the I think the key word is actually probably 'predictability'. The Linus tree is conservative. (IMHO too conservative and probably in his not conservative enough 8)) > really minor bug fixes and more of the experimental code, run -ac. If > you want production quality, run your kernel on a test server before > deploying. (As always!) Yep - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/