On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Micha Feigin wrote:
> The fact that people upgrade because they can is their problem.If you
> wan't stable you can always stick with the stable releases when they come
> and not use the development ones (which from my experience are very stable
> - and I have a bad tendency to have bugs in my program that crash most
> systems, didn't menage to that to the linux kernel).
Just to add more fuel to the flames. At many times new kernels were
introduced _into the stable tree_, which:
A.) Didn't work.
B.) Hung.
C.) Didn't fix the problem.
D.) I specifically remember one kernel revision (2.0.5 vs. 2.0.4, IIRC)
that didn't even compile.
The speed of release of new kernels in Linux is both a bane and a boon.
Sometimes they fix stuff quickly. Sometimes they fuck it up at the same
speed.
Regards,
Nir.
--
Nir Soffer - scorpios @ cs.huji.ac.il - http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~scorpios/
"The population rises exponentially, the number of clues rises geometrically,
and the number of clueful rises arithmetically. This is why the world has
problems." -- Alistair J. R. Young on ASR.
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