Re: Are we going too fast?

Nicholas Knight
2001-08-14T04:20:02Z

On Monday 13 August 2001 07:24 pm, David Ford wrote:
> 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.<even> is a release kernel and
> 2.<odd> is a development kernel. Some people (myself included) fight
> the impression given by a lot of people of stable/unstable naming.
> Typically called slashdotters...</humor>

If this is truely the case, I'd suggest that kernel.org be modified, as
it refers to them as *stable*
as of 9:18PM PDT, direct copy & paste from kernel.org page:

The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.8 2001-08-11 04:13
UTC Changelog

The latest prepatch (alpha) version appears to be: 2.4.9-pre3 2001-08-13
23:56 UTC Changelog