From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7135 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2003 20:15:02 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 28 Dec 2003 20:15:02 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AahJV-0003Qh-NU for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:15:01 +0000 Received: (qmail 603 invoked by uid 50004); 28 Dec 2003 20:15:01 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2235 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2003 20:15:01 +0000 Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:14:58 -0500 (EST) From: Stewart Honsberger X-X-Sender: stewart@zeus.snerk.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20031224125139.02d5c62b.ciaranm@gentoo.org> Message-ID: References: <1072264292.23532.3.camel@vertex> <20031224112344.3aa068ac.ciaranm@gentoo.org> <1072265248.23532.6.camel@vertex> <20031224124233.422074b1.pYrania@gentoo.org> <3FE9800B.6090709@gentoo.org> <1072269353.23529.15.camel@vertex> <20031224125139.02d5c62b.ciaranm@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] development-sources-2.6.0 => vanilla-sources X-Archives-Salt: 8597e1cb-1262-434a-acfa-bc7eb7b52250 X-Archives-Hash: 01bb1b19893f1ede9cb0275f221677a2 On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | Can't agree here. Im using 2.6 on my workstation for nearly 3 months > | now, i had no problems using X except 2 weird "out of memory" kills, > | which i cant reproduce or say its the kernel. > > You are using 2.6 on one box and it is working for you. That is not the > same as "it will work reliably for the majority of people on the > majority of boxes". Right now, 2.6 is not usable for many people. So mark it unstable, mask it, whatever; the point is it's no longer a 'development' kernel and as such it should be moved to either the vanilla sources category or given a new category, like 'vanilla-2.6-sources'. Keeping in mind that kernel 2.7 will shortly be upon us and it will supercede 2.5/2.6 as the official development kernel. It doesn't make sense for us to re-define the long-standing Linux terminology just because we disagree with Linus et al. regarding a particular kernel's stability. It's vanilla-sources. Gentoo does nothing but package it and track the version number. If somebody's running it, chances are they're aware enough of what they're doing and of the risks involved. -- Stewart Honsberger @ http://blackdeath.snerk.org/ Linux zeus i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux 15:11:41 up 134 days, 18:02, 1 user, load average: 1.19, 1.99, 1.78 Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life --- OUT THERE?? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list