Question regarding Linux kernels 2.2 and 2.4

Tom Achtenberg plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 05:56:10 -0700


Just curious why all of Thomas's emails have a small .dat file attached?

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From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Thomas
Mondoshawan Tate
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:20 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Question regarding Linux kernels 2.2 and 2.4


Hrmf... Guess I'm just too lacking in the versions of commercial distros --
only copies of RH and Slack I have are versions 6.2 and 7.0 respectively.
(not really interested in those distros -- an LFS system is all I need. =o)

As for the non-existant 2.5 series: why does it trouble you?

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 05:35:43PM -0700, Jim wrote:
> All of the new distros come with 2.4.  I think it has gotten to the point
of
> being nice and stable.  What troubles me is that we havent seen a 2.5
series
> yet.
>
> On Thursday 16 August 2001 16:58, you wrote:
> > Anybody notice the abundance of people holding on and still patching the
> > older 2.2 kernels? I've been rather curious about this for a while --
> > didn't say much about it because I thought it was a fluke or something.
> > Isn't the existance of the 2.4 kernels saying that the experimental 2.3
> > kernels have reached a stable version?
>
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