On 30-Sep 07:44, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am confused about the state of the 2.4.10 kernel. > > It seems that there are two VMs that are going to "fight it out" moving > forward: the original one (in the ac line of code) and a new one (in the > main line of code). > > Before this became clear, I was planning to move up to 2.4.10 from 2.4.4 > as it seemed that things were converging to a stable core. Things are getting much more stable. Drivers especially. Linus seems to be willing to work on core stuff still... > > Can someone help me understand if I should move to the new VM or just > wait for this to all get sorted out? What is being done for the next > release of Debian? (I'm running 2.2r3 with Adrian Bunk's 2.4 packages). I would say move the either of the two VM's in 2.4.10[-acX]. There are some real problems with the VM in 2.4.X (X<9) and interactions with other subsystems. Things should really settle down once 2.5 starts. If you follow lkml, there seems to be a fare amount of stuff that wants in NOW, and conservatives think that makes the "stable" kernel more "unstable". Given that some kernels haven't build w/o patch in a quick pre patch, I think the conservatives are gloating. :) Thomas PS: I have no idea where debian is going...I just follow it around.
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