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From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Number of bugs - statistics
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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Bosko Radivojevic
<bosko.radivojevic@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any kind of analysis of number of (reported or resolved) bugs
> through time in Linux kernel floating around? I'm trying to convince
> my colleagues that newer kernel version does not mean more bugs than
> the previous 'well tested' ones.

The following summary of a speech by Andrew Morton contains good
arguments as why you should use a recent kernel:
http://lwn.net/Articles/278647/

Bart.