Distributing 2.6
Posted Oct 3, 2003 16:19 UTC (Fri) by
garloff (subscriber, #319)
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Distributing 2.6
For Linux 2.6 to get stable it misses one thing:
Testing by a large amount of people.
Only this way, you get the test coverage you need, both in usage patterns
and in hardware combinations.
To allow many people to test, it is useful to have distributions that
are 2.6-ready. This way, people can test 2.6 without having to recompile
a lot of needed software (modutils is just one example) themselves.
Hopefully, many people will install the shipped 2.6 test kernels or
compile their own 2.6 kernels and report bugs to LKML.
But at the same time, a distributor would be a fool to make big PR
telling that it's a 2.6 based distro and then install a 2.6 kernel by
default.
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