Re: stable release?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 22:24 10-10-2001 +0200, Arjen Wolfs wrote:

> I'm seeing a lot of discussion about the 2.4.10 and 2.4.11, and I am 
> wondering when the next "stable" linux-xfs release will be. So far the 2.4 
> series of kernels (with or without xfs) has mostly been a "try random 
> kernels and kernel configurations until you find one that works for 
> you"-approach, which is making life very difficult. It would be really 
> good(TM) to have a tested 2.4.10-based (or later) official xfs 
> release...is any such thing forthcoming?

No 2.4.10+ work reported yet. You might try rawhide (redhat) or cooker 
(mandrake) for something although they will probably be based on a -ac 
version. I think there is a certain person to blame :-)

If 2.4.8-ac is good enough for you, try the mandrake kernel from 8.1 which 
seems to work well for me at work on highmem smp boxes. It also holds up 
well against some higher load I threw at it.

In general the 2.4 -ac kernels that alan produces fare better then the 2.4 
-linus kernels. Even when Alan is merging alot he still manages to retain a 
lot of stability. This is the exact reason why he is skipping the 2.4.10 VM 
change and is still holding onto the VM that Rik van Riel wrote.
He is slowly inserting some speedups Rik sent in the -ac VM which a lot of 
people are also noticing.

Both RedHat and Mandrake use -ac for their distributions. I don't know 
about SuSE. Maybe a SuSE user can comment on that.

Cheers

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Seth
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it was written and another for which it wasn't
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