Thats why I make shure to keep the old kernel around untill I check that
the new one works.
It's a basic rule for everything in computers.
Don't upgrade a program (and especially a system) and I don't care what it
is, before you know it works on your hardware.
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Nir Soffer wrote:
> 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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