On Monday 10 January 2005 11:34 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
FYI: 2.6 is not a development kernel, per definition. 2.6 is the current "stable" kernel and 2.4 is the "deprecated" (or whatever they call it) kernel. I've had no major issues with 2.6, but not something I would use on a production machine. IIRC, there is no current development kernel? There is no 2.7 right? Any ideas when if they are going to begin work on the next development kernel? Or are they just going to keep tweaking 2.6 until it's really stable? Did they pull a Microsoft on us with 2.6? What's your /opinion?
I seem to recall reading on Slashdot or LKML that there are no plans to ever have a development series kernel again -- all development is supposed to be happening at HEAD and it's up to distributions to stabilize on a particular version. And several distributions have done just that; many has selected 2.6.5 or .7 as their stabilization point.