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- From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Subject: Re: header woes with 2.2.2d
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.173556.17751@athena.mit.edu>
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- Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:35:56 GMT
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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Date: 18 Aug 92 13:51:35 GMT
-
- At the risk of sounding as if I'm complaining, I think the "phase
- errors" betweeen the ps, kernel, and gcc packages is getting to be
- enough hassle that the various maintainers should get together and agree
- on something and stick to it. Evertime a new version of one comes out,
- it seems to be a huge hassle getting it to work with the other two.
-
- Don't take the newest version then! Stick with 0.96c, and don't take a
- new version until it's become fully stable. After all, that's what
- happens when you shell out megabucks for commercial software --- you
- only get releases once every six months to every few years. If you took
- 0.96c, and didn't upgrade to 0.97, or 0.97pl1, you'd have a perfectly
- stable system. I suggest that those people who are complaining take
- either the MCC release, or the SLS release --- AND THEN NOT UPGRADE.
-
- What you're seeing is the nature of distributed development, and it's
- what has allowed Linux to grow so fast. The main feature/problem is
- that the kernel is continuing to evolve, and it is continuing to gain
- new features and its internals have been revamped to make it be
- stronger, better, faster, etc, etc.
-
- Asking Linus, et. al to "stick to it" would mean freezing kernel
- development. It would mean abandoning new changes to eliminate the 64
- process limit, and to make V86 emulation mode simpler to implement.
- That would be a Bad Thing.
-
- - Ted
-
- P.S. Just for the record, my personal system at home was at 0.95 long
- after the 0.96[abc] releases were out. I was busy doing other things,
- and I didn't see the point in upgrading to one of the more recent
- releases. Since I wasn't doing active kernel development at the time,
- it didn't make a difference. If you want stability and a production
- system, don't live on the bleeding edge.....
-
-