From: Tim Cambrant <tim@cambrant.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Too soon for stable release?
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:03:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031129180330.GB4592@cambrant.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031129170104.GA15333@work.bitmover.com>
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:01:04AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> The "stable" series of the kernel is never really stable for a while.
> A better way to think of it is as "that place where things become stable
> by refusing to take any new changes except bug fixes".
Oh, that explains things then. Since I've only been using stable kernels,
I've got no experience with how the kernel releases really work, and in
what order the versions arrive. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
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Tim Cambrant <tim@cambrant.com>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-29 17:49 Too soon for stable release? Tim Cambrant
2003-11-29 17:01 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-29 17:11 ` Russell King
2003-11-29 17:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-11-29 20:22 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-11-29 17:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-01 18:56 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-29 18:03 ` Tim Cambrant [this message]
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