Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264086AbTE0STR (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 14:19:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264090AbTE0SSH (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 14:18:07 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:65275 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264086AbTE0SRz (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 14:17:55 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.70 From: Robert Love To: Ricky Beam Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1054060263.16472.10.camel@lettuce> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.3.92 (1.3.92-1) (Preview Release) Date: 27 May 2003 11:31:04 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 775 Lines: 19 On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:09, Ricky Beam wrote: > In my opinion (as it was in the long long ago), everything in a "stable" > release should at least compile cleanly -- "working" comes later after > users have been conned into using it. A lot of this will happen in 2.6-pre, prior to 2.6.0, do not worry. A final stable release is still a few months off, although as Linus and Alan have said even that does not mean perfection. But before 2.6.0 hits the streets, 2.6-pre will mature a lot. This is how things work. Robert Love - 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/