Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (WAS Re: [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem

jbradford
2002-10-04T06:19:54Z

> > Hmmm, then for 3.0 I'd vote for fully working and proven stable:
>
> Hm, how do you "prove" any of these are stable :)

Hmm, yeah, I see what you mean, but for me, proved stable is a couple of years of being in a major distribution, with people actually using it.

Now that major distributions no longer ship development kernels, (Slackware used to - I have slackware CDs with 1.3.x trees on them, for example), this is a less valid point.

> > * Bluetooth
>
> Been there since 2.4

..and I'm sure the three people actually using it haven't found any bugs yet ;-)

> > * USB (2)
>
> Present in 2.5 (and 2.4 now too)

..and yet there are still complaints that it doesn't work every day on the list.

> > * IEEE 1394
>
> Been there since 2.4.

Still marked as experimental, though. Not stable yet.

John.