Per http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1054099,00.asp commercial distros with 2.6 should start appearing in the fall. That is the first time I have seen a projected date. Greg -- Greg Freemyer
* Greg Freemyer (freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com) [030521 10:05]: ->Per http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1054099,00.asp -> ->commercial distros with 2.6 should start appearing in the fall. -> ->That is the first time I have seen a projected date. Yeah, because it's from the talkinghead journalists. I would say 3-6 months after 2.6 is released as stable would be a good time to start using it. If I remember right 2.4 really didn't get good until about .12 or .14. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
On Wed, 21 May 2003 10:57:52 -0700, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Greg Freemyer (freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com) [030521 10:05]: ->Per http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1054099,00.asp -> ->commercial distros with 2.6 should start appearing in the fall. -> ->That is the first time I have seen a projected date.
Yeah, because it's from the talkinghead journalists. I would say 3-6 months after 2.6 is released as stable would be a good time to start using it. If I remember right 2.4 really didn't get good until about .12 or .14.
All this is wildly and recklessly premature. 2.6 will come out when it comes out, and no one knows when that will be, let alone "talking head journalists." -- David Benfell, LCP benfell@parts-unknown.org --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/resume.html
On Wednesday 21 May 2003 11:40, David Benfell wrote:
On Wed, 21 May 2003 10:57:52 -0700, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Greg Freemyer (freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com) [030521 10:05]: ->Per http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1054099,00.asp -> ->commercial distros with 2.6 should start appearing in the fall. -> ->That is the first time I have seen a projected date.
Yeah, because it's from the talkinghead journalists. I would say 3-6 months after 2.6 is released as stable would be a good time to start using it. If I remember right 2.4 really didn't get good until about .12 or .14.
All this is wildly and recklessly premature. 2.6 will come out when it comes out, and no one knows when that will be, let alone "talking head journalists."
Very true. And straight from the mouth of Mr. Reiser (answered my question about the release expectations directly) and he said the same thing. As you know it's in feature freeze, though this time he states It's a little different than previous kernels. Essentially it bug fix and shakedown time. Although, he stated something along the lines that in certain cases it have have some specific things added. And of course he stated that better latter and right then sooner. In otherwords your right - it's ready when it's ready. Linus has the say about this but that's also the part that's different. They have a kernel maintainer now, pre-release, rather than before where the maintainer took up the duties after the release. This is a new advent and it was suggested that this would be done in order to have things going so that change are made continually during development, rather then after release - as far as the maintainers functions go. If anyone else has more insite or I've mis-interpreted something I'm sure that I'll be corrected and welcome it. Cheers, Curtis.
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