Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:32:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:30:07 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:58386 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:27:04 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:25:40 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen To: Felix Seeger cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.18 In-Reply-To: <200202262042.27501.felix.seeger@gmx.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Felix Seeger wrote: > If anyone needs a new kernel, your dist will have well tested working kernels > for your arch. That's not possible, honestly. Any application of the adjectives "new" and "well tested" to the same noun is an oxymoron. If someone needs a new kernel they have to go to the bleeding edge, otherwise what they need is an "upgrade," and it's not the same thing. By the time a responsible vendor releases a kernel it is in no way new, nor should it be. Is you need stability and timelyness, go to vendors of -ac, -aa, -jam, etc. Or similar, I'm not deliberately leaving anyone out, just that those are kernels I have run on non-critical but production servers, because I NEED the performance kick or the lockup fix. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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/