On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:30:41AM -0500, Tam Ma wrote: > Can someone tell me what is the different between the > "developement" version from the "stable" version of a kernel?
More effort is made to make sure that the stable version works for reasonable configurations. Things may stop working every now and then in the development kernel - new features sometimes mean new bugs. > Is kernel 2.2.0 stable or dev? Stable. > What is the different between 2.2.0.tar.bz2 and 2.2.0.tar.gz? One is compressed with bzip2, the other with gzip. While the .bz2 file produced by > What does it mean when there is and question mark (?) in front of the file > instead of the other symbol? Pass. This is to do with the FTP site you get your files from. > How come all I hear about is kernel 2.0.36 and kernel 2.2.0, what the > following version in between, are they not working???? > linux-2.0.4.tar.gz 08-Jul-1996 00:00 5.7M > ............. to ................ > linux-2.0.9.tar.gz 26-Jul-1996 00:00 5.7M These are older revisions of the 2.0.x kernel. Every so often a new revision of the stable kernel will be released, fixing bugs found since release. When this happens, the last component of the version number is increased. For example, the first patch to the 2.2 kernel will probably be version 2.2.1. The old versions will probably work fine for most people, but it is generally best to use the latest version unless there are known incompatibilities. > linux-2.1.0.tar.bz2 30-Sep-96 14:23 4.7M > ............. to ................ > linux-2.1.99.tar.gz 01-May-98 00:21 10.7M These are the development kernels that lead up to 2.2.0. As mentioned above, things may be broken in some of them. While the stability of Linux development kernels is generally very good, you probably don't want to be running them unless you know what you're doing. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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