RE: My thoughts on the "new development model"

[Massimo Cetra]

> There seems to be a lot of strange notions on this concept of 
> 'stable'. The only thing that makes a kernel 'stable' is 
> time. Not endless bugfixes. Just time. The idea of stable 
> software is software that not going to give you any suprises, 
> software that you can trust.
> 
> That's NOT the same as bug free software. For a start, 
> there's no such thing. For another, many bugs are perfectly 
> acceptable in a production environment as long as they're not 
> impacting. (The linux kernel is a very large piece of work. 
> Few installations would use even 20% of the total kernel 
> functionality).
> 

Yes, perfectly right.
You would agree (for example) that this: 

> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Danny Brow wrote:
>
> Ok, thank you for the feedback, glad you fixed your problem. 
> Now I guess we just need for someone to find out why 
> LEGACY_PTYS breaks 
> ssh (and other apps?) with kernels >= 2.6.9, but I'm afraid 
> thats beyond 

Does not reflect the behaviour of a stable kernel.
Yes, of course, there's the workaround. But I don't think this bug is
not impacting.

I repeat once again. To me something is going in the wrong direction.

Massimo






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