Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

From: Roland Kuhn
Date: Tue Jun 26 2007 - 15:37:37 EST


Hi Zoltan!

On 26 Jun 2007, at 16:37, Zoltán HUBERT wrote:

If your vendor don't want to support you anymore, try
getting the source.

I was asking for a stable kernel, like 2.4, 2.2, 2.0 were
before. 2.6 is not. It's a great kernel, better than that
of MacOS X, I never said you were doing a bad job, quite
the contrary. I wouldn't be using Linux since 10 years if I
thought it stinks. I never asked support for closed source
drivers, only a stable kernel.

Whatever "stable" means.

What you mean by "stable" pretty much excludes any serious development, without which the Linux kernel would very soon be obsolete. If you want a stable system, then don't change it. If you update to a kernel which is 2.5 years newer, you simply cannot have stability, because that would mean stagnation, aka "death".

Ciao,
Roland

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