can someone explain if there is a "stable 2.4.2" out there why do we have a 2.2.19 released? -- SuSe 7.0 Linux 2.4.2 i686 Mon Mar 26 21:05:00 EST 2001
can someone explain if there is a "stable 2.4.2" out there why do we have a 2.2.19 released? For a lot of people (corporations most notably) upgrading from 2.2 -> 2.4 is a big deal with a lot of risks. For the home user, it doesn't matter. But for big iron systems and massive webservers, it's a big issue to upgrade because not all software is guaranteed to work with 2.4 yet. So by
On Monday 26 March 2001 08:21 pm, you wrote: maintaining 2.2 you're appeasing still a huge crowd of people who either can't upgrade to 2.4 for whatever reason or who don't trust it. I hope this answers your question Kevin Breit
For the same reason there is a 2.0.39 ..which came out around the same time as 2.2.14 I believe..some people hate to use new kernels until they are "proven" .. Proven=they don't have a choice ;) * Landy Roman (landie@concentric.net) [010326 22:17]: =>can someone explain if there is a "stable =>2.4.2" out there why do we have a 2.2.19 =>released? -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
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