From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751328AbVKIPnl (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:43:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750721AbVKIPnl (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:43:41 -0500 Received: from onyx.ip.pt ([195.23.92.252]:63882 "EHLO mail.isp.novis.pt") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751328AbVKIPnk (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:43:40 -0500 Subject: Re: New Linux Development Model From: Marcos Marado Reply-To: marado@isp.novis.pt To: Calin Szonyi Cc: jerome lacoste , Edgar Hucek , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <436C7E77.3080601@ed-soft.at> <20051105122958.7a2cd8c6.khali@linux-fr.org> <436CB162.5070100@ed-soft.at> <5a2cf1f60511060252t55e1a058o528700ea69826965@mail.gmail.com> <436DEEFC.4020301@ed-soft.at> <5a2cf1f60511060543m5edc8ba8i920a3005b95a556d@mail.gmail.com> <5a2cf1f60511090430y63db5473we40f077070ecb43a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ANSTIyqBw5h9mUp8dt18" Organization: Novis ISP Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:45:04 +0000 Message-Id: <1131551104.8930.48.camel@noori.ip.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-ANSTIyqBw5h9mUp8dt18 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 16:03 +0200, caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, jerome lacoste wrote: > Because i like to test new kernels. On 2.4 I run the vanila kernel and a=20 > test kernel. When something went wrong on a test kernel was always a=20 > stable kernel to use. > 2.6 looks a lot like 2.5. New features are added very quickly without muc= h=20 > testing. Of course there is Andrew's -mm tree but this one sometimes=20 > is too broken. > For me linux looks now like it has one unstable tree (2.6) which is=20 > something like -ac was in days of 2.4 and -mm was in the days of 2.4=20 > -2.5 and -mm which looks like it became very unstable. > This is what i saw ok lkml (maybe my view is distorted). > I'll stop ranting and try both of them because i have some bugs to report= . Man, -mm are unstable kernels, 2.6.x[.y] are the stable ones. > The 2.6.x.y kernels sometimes are almost no different from 2.6.x That's true, and good. the .y is the -stable tree, that is supposed to add only stability and security fixes. --=20 Marcos Marado Novis ISP --=-ANSTIyqBw5h9mUp8dt18 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDchmArpje80Vhea8RAv3WAKChW1VFvm1WrS3yzLznOueYJ4oQLgCgpfny O529dqS18K8TWLAD4fQp8OU= =XOII -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ANSTIyqBw5h9mUp8dt18--