On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:48:22 -0400 Eric Martin <freak4u...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, the kernel is the last place that you want to drag > your feet for updates. If there's a bug in the kernel I want to have it > fixed asap. Granted you can also argue that I'm injecting buggy code. > It's two sides of the same coin. > Come on, that is what bugfix releases are for. Gentoo-sources is patched for bugs. I prefer to use vanilla-sources, so I rely on upstream's bugfix releases. Currently I use 2.6.27.21. I will stop using 2.6.27.x when a later version becomes gentoo-stable, and either 1) upstream stops bugfixing 2.6.27 2) 2.6.27 lacks a feature I want 3) 2.6.27 becomes so old that I fear it might be incompatible with the rest of Gentoo. Probably 1 or 2 will happen much earlier than 3. PS: I of course know that sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.27.21 is currently ~x86, but my rationale is that 2.6.27 is Gentoo-stable, and I want the latest bugfix release from the stable release family I am using. I don't know why, in the case of the 2.6.27.x version, the Gentoo kernel team is taking so long to stabilize the latest bugfix release. PS2: If something I said sounds strange, remember English is my second language. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free. --Linus Torvalds
