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triad
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 Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 2:51 am Post subject: When does the 2.6 kernel GO stable? |
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Been contemplating messing with the 2.6 kernel again. But it seems like every other day there is a new -rc candidate out. Whats a good Indicator that its about time to goto the new kernel and not have to worry much about bugs or having to update every other day?
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hopstah
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 2:54 am Post subject: |
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it's been stable for a while, it's just still under gentoo-dev-sources in the portage tree.
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ewan.paton
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even the development sources (2.5.x ) were pretty stable only prob i heard of was 2.6.1 {1}, if its a production enviroment i would wait a while, otherwise jump on any time whats the harm.
{1} probably due to the long feature freeze for 2.6.0
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ormi
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| Well, 2.6 is "stable" as 2.4.x. If you don't have bttv or iptables, you should give a try to 2.6 (I've problems with bttv (dmesg: high irq latency blaablaablaa.. ) and iptables causes strange behaviour to mozilla, konqueror and other net applications.. they'll just freeze). |
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siti
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I have found 2.6.[012] to not be very stable. It might be different for other people but thats what I found. I had random lockups  but with kernel 2.4 its rock solid |
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petrjanda
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| go for ck-sources. Im running 2.6.2-ck1, stable and faster than any other 2.6 source. |
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El_Presidente_Pufferfish
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when will it be vanilla-sources though  |
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triad
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Thanks all for your replies. Ended up making the plunge with some love-sources and the system does rock! Alot less painless from when I played with the 2.6 kernel in its beta days.
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| triad wrote: | Thanks all for your replies. Ended up making the plunge with some love-sources and the system does rock! Alot less painless from when I played with the 2.6 kernel in its beta days.
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Now to emerge the 2.6 linux headers and reemerge glibc, then you'll be all set. Before I forget thank you for choosing love-sources for your desktop needs. This message is sponsored by the walrus's for love-sources organization.
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| steel300 wrote: | | Now to emerge the 2.6 linux headers and reemerge glibc, then you'll be all set. Before I forget thank you for choosing love-sources for your desktop needs. This message is sponsored by the walrus's for love-sources organization. |
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sock linux-headers # grep KEYWORDS linux-headers-2.6.1.ebuild
KEYWORDS="-*"
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Is this the linux-headers you emerged? The -* suggests there are problems with them. |
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