From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 04:49:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 04:48:57 -0400 Received: from [209.102.21.2] ([209.102.21.2]:55812 "EHLO dragnet.seagull.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 04:48:46 -0400 Message-ID: <3B06338E.81D72C9A@goingware.com> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 04:49:23 -0400 From: "Michael D. Crawford" Organization: GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: "Why We Should All Test the New Linux Kernel" updated Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have updated my article "Why We Should All Test the New Linux Kernel" that was originally posted on Advogato just before 2.4.0 was release and posted it in a new location: http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/whytestkernel/ I welcome your comments, please write to crawford@goingware.com A number of people wrote in with comments and corrections after I wrote the original article, but Advogato doesn't provide for editing an article once it's posted - one can only make replies. In this revision I could fix things throughout the text and can keep it updated as I think of ways to improve it in the future. It discusses why its important to test the kernel, where to get test kernels and how to get started with them, gives the minimum version numbers of the programs listed in Documentation/Changes from 2.4.4, with links to where to download updates, and ends with an in-depth discussion of why something like a kernel needs particularly thorough testing - the reason being that disrupting the virtual machine in a kernel has non-local effects on a system; screwing up a user-mode program will usually just mess up that one program, but screwing up a kernel can make all kinds of weird things happen. Regards, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com crawford@goingware.com Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.