2.6.0

[Brian J. Conway]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Bob Keyes wrote:

> Yes, the wait was long. But there were good reasons. Still, some
> application developers are waiting "two or three kernel revisions, till
> things settle down" before porting to 2.6 -- they just don't understand,
> it seems, that this kernel is supposed to be stable.

Or, they've followed the kernel mailing list and know that it isn't.  The 
todo list for the 2.6 kernel is still very extensive and there are a lot 
of crashes that haven't been tracked down.  After my experience with the 
early 2.4 upgrade process and the reading I've done on the current state 
of affairs, I'll be waiting quite a while before upgrading anything 
(probably when my distribution of choice comes with it by default and I'm 
satisfied with its stability; Mandrake 10.2 sounds about right).

Brian J. Conway
bconway at alum.wpi.edu

"LINUX is obsolete"
     - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992