2.6.0

[Brendan]

On Thursday 18 December 2003 01:12 pm, Brian J. Conway wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Bob Keyes wrote:
> > Yes, the wait was long. But there were good reasons. Still, some
> > application developers are waiting "two or three kernel revisions, till
> > things settle down" before porting to 2.6 -- they just don't understand,
> > it seems, that this kernel is supposed to be stable.
>
> Or, they've followed the kernel mailing list and know that it isn't.  The
> todo list for the 2.6 kernel is still very extensive and there are a lot
> of crashes that haven't been tracked down.  After my experience with the
> early 2.4 upgrade process and the reading I've done on the current state
> of affairs, I'll be waiting quite a while before upgrading anything
> (probably when my distribution of choice comes with it by default and I'm
> satisfied with its stability; Mandrake 10.2 sounds about right).

Did you actually read and understand the crashes that are still occurring?
http://lwn.net/Articles/63633/

Don't want to throw this on a spare box and contribute a few bug reports?

B