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Subject: Re: What is the most stable kernel to date?
From: Juergen Sawinski <juergen.sawinski@mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de>
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My computer at work uses 2.4.19-pre10-ac2-preempt (i686) and is up 13
days now. A couple of people are working on it causing high loads with
Matlab, VMware etc...

The last one, 2.4.19-pre?-ac?-preempt (sorry, forgot the numbers) ran
for a couple of month... so I consider 2.4.19-pres quite stable.


On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 18:48, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> 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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