On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:39:32PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
| On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:58:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
| > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote:
| >
| > > I notice that "woody" installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4
| > > kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision?
| >
| > 2.2 was current when woody was in development.
|
| I'm not sure what "in development" means, but 2.4 has been out
| for close to a year and a half. It certainly hasn't been
| stable enough for production use for that long, but I'd have a
| hard time believing that woody has been frozen for that long,
Believe it. (well, it wasn't quite frozen, but a year ago people
predicted woody would be released by november or december)
| since 2.2.20 has only been out for five months.
The change from 2.2.18pre21 (or whichever was in potato's installer)
to 2.2.20 is a much smaller change.
| It seems that with every release cycle, the "stable" Linux
| kernel becomes less and less stable. It's a sad state of
| affairs when it takes a year and a half for a "stable" Linux
| kernel to become stable enough to ship. :(
Yeah.
| It will probably end up depending on how well the 2.2 kernel
| supports hot-plugging of USB devices. If I can't get that to
| work, I'll probably ditch 2.2 and just ship 2.4.
FWIW, I hot-plug my (USB) mouse with 2.4 all the time. I've got my
desktop machine, and then the laptop I work with is much nicer with my
nice mouse than with the touch pad. I've also hot plugged PS/2
keyboards and serial mice with no glitches. (win2k must reboot if you
unplug the serial mouse!)
-D
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