Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:28:33 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
       "Marcos D. Marado Torres" <marado@student.dei.uc.pt>,
       Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>, Massimo Cetra <mcetra@navynet.it>,
       "'Chuck Ebbert'" <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
       "'Bill Davidsen'" <davidsen@tmr.com>,
       "'linux-kernel'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:23:21PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> It also appears that you have forgotten early 2.4 at the very least...

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:04:33AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Oh yes I remember... I was very interested because of netfilter and ramfs
> but couldn't use it because of its awful stability. That was when I started
> complaining about linux development model, where new features were more
> important than bug fixes, which resulted in no usable kernel before 2.4.18.

2.6.x has taken a rather different path from 2.4.x


-- wli
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