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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: jread@semiotek.com (Justin Wells)
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Subject: Re: Please tag tested releases of the 2.4.x kernel
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In article <20011130220451.9D5AD38326@fever.semiotek.com> you wrote:
>
> It would be great if on kernel.org there were a note indicating which 
> releases of the linux kernel had been favourably received. 
>
> If you could organize a bit you could even mark a release as "TESTED",
> or even "APPROVED". All it would mean is that after it had been out for
> a week or two nobody found any really serious problems.

Approved kernel are usually come in files ending in i386.rpm,
ia64.rpm or .deb.

Come on, no one expects stock kernel to be tested.  Distributors
on the other hand spend a lot of effort on testing their releases,
so go for a distribution kernel if you need something tested.  Really.

	Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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