re: Stabilization is for Distibutors

re: Stabilization is for Distibutors

Posted Oct 8, 2004 12:45 UTC (Fri) by cajal (guest, #4167)
In reply to: Stabilization is for Distibutors by miallen
Parent article: Quotes of the week

I, for one, always use the kernel.org kernels specifically because I don't want one patched with who-knows-what. And I utterly fail to understand why so many Linux users just chant the party line that "stabilization is for distributions" -- why is it so unreasonable to expect the kernel developers to stabilize and test their code before they release a "stable" kernel? If the only test for a "stable kernel" is "does it compile on x86" then they might as well not bother calling it stable. It makes no sense for RedHat, Novell/Suse, gentoo, et al to all do duplicate testing and patching.

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