From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265328AbTLNCBU (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:01:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265329AbTLNCBU (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:01:20 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:35583 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265328AbTLNCBT (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:01:19 -0500 Message-ID: <3FDBC466.3060304@charter.net> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:01:10 -0800 From: coderman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4 vs 2.6 References: <20031201062052.GA2022@frodo> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Rychter wrote: >So, as for me, 2.6 is a definite no-no. I see no advantage whatsoever in >running it, it caused me nothing but pain, and there is no improvement >that I could see that would justify the upgrade. > >So please be careful when making statements like that. 2.6 is *NOT* >stable enough nor ready enough for people to use it, unless those people >have a narrow range of hardware on which the 2.6 kernel has actually >been tested (translation: they have the same hardware as the main >developers do). > > For every person who has problems with 2.6, there are probably 2 others who have none, and enjoy the benefits of the new features. 2.6 works great for me, and one a number of hardware configurations including: - PII-266 - SMP dual PIII-550 - M10000 mini-itx - 1.1 Ghz Athlon all with a variety of video chipsets, USB devices, IDE / ATAPI disks and CD/DVD, sound cards, etc. I doubt many of these are consistent with the main developers. 2.6 may not be usable for you, but this has no bearing on the utility of the branch for others. I have noticed benefits (mainly prempt, IPSEC, and the IDE device handling) which make it very worthwhile.