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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:48:46 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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Subject: Re: What is the most stable kernel to date?
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Hi,

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > Has anyone conducted any tests to determine what is the most stable (as in
> > reliable) kernel available?
> 
> There is no such test because there's no way to describe "being stable"
> in formulas.
> 
> You might as well like to stick with a kernel that has worked for you
> for a long enough time. If you don't need the features of 2.4, go with
> 2.2-latest.

Well, about stability: I'm running 2.4.19-rc1-aa2 for some days now, I 
didn't yet have any problems. My sparc64, meanwhile, is running 2.5.24-ct1, 
stable for more than a week of uptime yet.

							Regards,
							Thunder
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