Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1

From: Horst von Brand
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 16:14:45 EST


Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> said:

[...]

> Unless he really knows what he's doing, no user should use anything
> other than the actual releases (i.e. 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.9,...).

Nope. They should use whatever $DISTRO gives them. Anything else is
experimental (more or less so).


[...]

> It would be more important if Linus would release one last -rc that will
> be released unchanged (except for EXTRAVERSION a few days later to catch
> bugs in last minute changes. This might catch more problems like the JFS
> compile problem in 2.6.7.

Just try and change Linus' ways...
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