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Re: is 2.0.18 stable?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jason philbrook)
Sat Oct 26 21:05:18 1996
From: jason philbrook <jp@c6h22o11.midcoast.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:03:18 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <v0301050bae985f51ee27@[206.243.174.18]> from "ralph muha" at Oct 26, 96 08:45:14 pm
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> >One wierdo - the installation kernel did not find my WD80*3 ethernet card.
> >Recompiling the kernel fixed that - but I wonder if Red Hat would care to
> >comment on this?
The kernel is not a redhat thing. Just download a kernel source, compile
it, and use it. Eventually, you'll fine one that works excellent for your
needs. You probably don't have a need for the very newest, and the very
newest might be broken. I would suspect that the 2 series aught to be
almost twice as reliable, assuming you have reliable hardware, power, and
all the other factors we sometimes overlook. (I.E. a 3c509b is a vastly
more reliable card than the typical ne2000)
Typical 1.2.13 system: (this is very heavily used)
root@dns:~# uptime
8:47pm up 78 days, 11:04, 3 users, load average: 0.28, 0.35, 0.41
jp@sugar:~$ uptime
9:34pm up 62 days, 4:00, 6 users, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.09
jp@sugar:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.0.0 (root@sugar.midcoast.com) (gcc version 2.7.2) #2 Sun
Jun 30 09:03:44 EDT 1996
I've had excellent luck with 2.0.18 on a machine I just setup, and 2.0.21
on a machine I stuck in a closet 50 miles away which I intend to actually
visit once every few months. It is a modem server and is about $1500 less
than a portmaster.
> the installation kernel didn't find my 3C509B and recompiling didn't fix
> the problem. backing off to my old 2.0.1 kernel did. guess I'll have to
> start building kernel versions incrementally and see when it breaks...
>
> it's worth asking if 2.0.18 is really as stable as the old 1.2.13 kernel.
> according to the archives at sunsite, the 2.0.18 patch file is dated
> Thu Sep 5 and the latest version is 2.0.23. Is it really possible to
> call something stable that is less than two months old and has already
> changed five more times in that period?
>
> how long was the 1.2.13 kernel in use before 3.0.3 was released?
>
> r
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