Re: [Sheflug] FYI ... 2.5.0 released.

["Chris J" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Anyone got any ideas as to how stable the beta 2.5 kernel is?
>
> Darrell
>

2.5.0 is as stable as 2.4.15 as they are both identical. But 2.5.1 onwards
will probably be a very different beast (new drivers, fixes and sub-system
rewrites) compared to 2.4.16 onwards (bug fixes and maybe some backporting
from 2.5).

The 2.5 kernel will, in the run up to 2.6, vary in stability from very stable
to a crash a minute with probably the odd quirk thrown in (anything from not
booting to disk corruption), and the possibility that there could be several
revisions in one week. 2.5 /is/ a development series rather than a stable
series, so anything can happen with the kernel. If your primary concern is
stability, stay with 2.4 (or even 2.2) until 2.6 comes out. If you do follow
2.5 then reading LKML[1] is really a must so you know what problems turn up,
and what system utils (eg, modutils, binutils, gcc etc) you must upgrade.

Chris...

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