Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Fri Jun 22 2007 - 04:41:28 EST



On Jun 21 2007 16:32, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> For my part, I think the 2.6.<odd> did not go as well as the 2.6.<even>,
>> beginning with x=16.
>
> you misunderstood the even/odd it was never 2.x.y with y odd/even being stable
> / development, it was the x being even/odd to indicate stable / development.
>
> all 2.6.x are stable, all 2.5.x were development.
[2.even.x stable, 2.odd.x development]

True dat. But it _feels_ like 2.6.odd is becoming developmental.
(The good thing however is that there's a 2.6.even quite shortly after a
2.6.odd ;-))
So basically it's like "a good kernel every 4 months".


Jan
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