From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:24:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:24:48 -0400 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.59.2]:35966 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:24:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3B788BDC.100@blue-labs.org> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:24:28 -0400 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PinkFreud CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Are we going too fast? In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org PinkFreud wrote: >I wasn't aware VIA nor Matrox were broken. I've seen someone else mention in >this thread that perhaps some old HOWTOs on hardware need to be maintained >again - I think I agree with that. > VIA comes up as a bloody thorn quite often it seems. I have a VIA 586B system and it seems to work decently but I think I'm just lucky considering the large number of broken VIA chipset complaints. >Perhaps series name should be changed from 'stable' to something else - >'release'? > Erm...they are called release. 2. is a release kernel and 2. is a development kernel. Some people (myself included) fight the impression given by a lot of people of stable/unstable naming. Typically called slashdotters... David