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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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On Sat Jul 13, 2002 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> >   Will kernel tree 2.0 stop developing and regard historical after the
> > release of 2.6?  I think we would put our focus on much more newer kernel.
> > And I found this may confuse the newbies, because they don't know much
> > about versioning in Kernel.
> >
> >   In nowsdays, there are less less compputers using 2.0. We should push
> > them to upgrade, so I think stop developing 2.0 is better, in my opinion
> 
> Is there any reason at all to use 2.0 instead of 2.2?

Size.  I recall putting together an mmu-less system running a
2.0.x kernel.  For the first rev of the board I had just 1 MB
of ram.  Try doing that with 2.4.x....  doesn't work.

 -Erik

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