Re: Future of Kernel tree 2.0 ............

From: Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 19:42:28 EST


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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