Re: Stability of 2.6.17-rc3?

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 08:34, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > 2.6.17-rc3 is a development kernel, no guarantees about anything really.
> > Development kernels are run completely at your own risk. It may run
> > fine, it may explode at boot, [...], it may eat your lunch, it may cause
> > an alien invasion -[...]
>
> Quite a list. So what can -mm kernels make go wrong more? :-]

Well, back in the 2.5 days, JFS/-mm ate my filesystem, which is possibly worse 
than it eating my lunch, and more relevant to me than an alien invasion...

Though, Joshua, 2.6.17-rc3 seems to be a rock-solid release. It's safe enough 
to diff against and boot, if that's what you want to do.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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