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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
Cc: c0330 <c0330@yingwa.edu.hk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Future of Kernel tree 2.0 ............
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 18:42:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020714004227.GE29007@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200207131543.49094.roy@karlsbakk.net>

On Sat Jul 13, 2002 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> >   Will kernel tree 2.0 stop developing and regard historical after the
> > release of 2.6?  I think we would put our focus on much more newer kernel.
> > And I found this may confuse the newbies, because they don't know much
> > about versioning in Kernel.
> >
> >   In nowsdays, there are less less compputers using 2.0. We should push
> > them to upgrade, so I think stop developing 2.0 is better, in my opinion
> 
> Is there any reason at all to use 2.0 instead of 2.2?

Size.  I recall putting together an mmu-less system running a
2.0.x kernel.  For the first rev of the board I had just 1 MB
of ram.  Try doing that with 2.4.x....  doesn't work.

 -Erik

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-14  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-13 21:35 Future of Kernel tree 2.0 c0330
2002-07-13 13:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-13 13:41 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-13 13:43 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-07-13 16:07   ` Gerhard Mack
2002-07-13 17:11     ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-14  0:42   ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2002-07-13 14:53 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-13 15:34   ` Stephen Frost
2002-07-13 15:36 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2002-07-13 16:28 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-07-13 23:49   ` David Weinehall
2002-07-15  4:07     ` Austin Gonyou
2002-07-15 19:22     ` Bill Davidsen
2002-07-15 19:42       ` Jeff Dike
2002-07-13 23:37 ` David Weinehall
2002-07-15  2:16   ` Eric W. Biederman

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