Re: Kernel 2.4 delay

From: Jim Nance (jnance@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 14:52:38 EST


On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:59:02PM +0200, Markus Pfeiffer wrote:

> to my comment. As I read about people who want more and more features in
> 2.4 because its sooooo necessary for companies or even other issues I
> get really angry. One, namely Linus can once stabilize the features,
> bring out 2.4 and then happily go on to 2.5. The story goes on, and if
> the dev-cycle becomes shorter then, new features will be in new kernels

Hi Markus,
    I dont think this has anything to do with companies wanting features.
Every stable kernel release has come out MUCH latter than people wanted
it to. This one is going about like all the other ones did :-)

Jim

PS Anybody remember how many "1.0 by Christmas" years we had?

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