From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:20:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:19:42 -0400 Received: from femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.254.60.19]:12986 "EHLO femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:19:34 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Nicholas Knight Reply-To: tegeran@home.com To: David Ford , PinkFreud Subject: Re: Are we going too fast? Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:19:30 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3B788BDC.100@blue-labs.org> In-Reply-To: <3B788BDC.100@blue-labs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01081321193002.00204@c779218-a> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 13 August 2001 07:24 pm, David Ford wrote: > PinkFreud wrote: > >I wasn't aware VIA nor Matrox were broken. I've seen someone else > > mention in this thread that perhaps some old HOWTOs on hardware need > > to be maintained again - I think I agree with that. > > VIA comes up as a bloody thorn quite often it seems. I have a VIA 586B > system and it seems to work decently but I think I'm just lucky > considering the large number of broken VIA chipset complaints. > > >Perhaps series name should be changed from 'stable' to something else > > - 'release'? > > Erm...they are called release. 2. is a release kernel and > 2. is a development kernel. Some people (myself included) fight > the impression given by a lot of people of stable/unstable naming. > Typically called slashdotters... If this is truely the case, I'd suggest that kernel.org be modified, as it refers to them as *stable* as of 9:18PM PDT, direct copy & paste from kernel.org page: The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.8 2001-08-11 04:13 UTC Changelog The latest prepatch (alpha) version appears to be: 2.4.9-pre3 2001-08-13 23:56 UTC Changelog