Re: Kernel upgrades.

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

>  Must say it hadn`t really occured to me to stick with older versions of
> the kernel...although I`m running newer hardware on my system that has
> had a few driver updates since 2.2.5 to 2.2.14 (all the time I`ve been
> running Linux).

You only really gain stability by switching to older versions. Of course,
there may also be binary-only modules or something else like that which
would force you to use it. Or being a Debian user :-P (just kidding,
deb-heads ;)

>  Dunno if upgrading to 2.4 will be done straight away tho.

Certainly will be here. I want the promise stuff, new nfs & improved
networking & all that malarkey.

>  All you old timers out there that remember 2.0 > 2.2 was there many
> teething problems with the new tree?

Firstly, it wasn't that long ago (at least, seems like it wasn't!), but
yeah, there were large teething problems. Many would argue 2.2 came out to
quickly, although 2.0.3x had been going *ages*. (About four years, or
something? Maybe that was just 2.0.x...)

Cheers,

Alex.

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