Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
The 2.5 series is the development/unstable kernel series (AKA hemorrhaging edge). 2.5.0 thru 2.5.2 existed, at least fleetingly. Unless you are a kernel developer or have a spare machine to crash, you don't want them.
The 2.4 series is theoretically stable (i.e., bleeding edge). The 2.2 series is still being worked on and extended (the production series).
I have to disagree with that. When Linus signed off on 2.4.16 to open the 2.5 tree, that basically made it the "final production release". We've put SuSE's 2.4.16 on half-a-dozen machines at work and have had no problems whatsoever. I can't imagine anyone installing 2.2 on a new machine at this point. -- ======================================================= Glenn Holmer (gholmer@ameritech.net) ------------------------------------------------------- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. (In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.) ------------------------------------------------------- -H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", 1926 =======================================================