Re: Stability (2.2.14/15/16/17pre1)

From: Matthias Andree (ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 18:20:55 EST

Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@liveware.com.br> writes:

> I have been running 2.2.14 since a few days after it's release on Intel
> and Sparc machines, and I'm very happy with it.
> I have managed to avoid 2.2.15 totaly, couse of it's very known problems.
>
> Now, I need to upgrade, couse of the fixes for the capabilities bug et al.
>
> I have 3 options:
>
> - 2.2.16 stock
> - 2.2.16 + Alan's 2.2.16combo patch
> - 2.2.17pre1
>
> What made me afraid at this point is 2.2.16 being called a security patch.
> Is it 2.2.15 + security patches only ? Or does it fix 2.2.15 stability
> problems ?

You could go for either of the last two you mentioned, with the
2.2.16+Alan's patches being the stable release.

Note 2.2.14 is also vulnerable to the CAPABILITY bug that 2.2.15 suffers
from and what was the actual reason for 2.2.16. You would want to get a
fixed (patched) 2.2.14, fixed (patched) 2.2.15 or 2.2.16, best you get
it at once. (You can always save your old kernel and modules and keep it
to put it back in) 

-- 
Matthias Andree

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