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#! rnews 1365 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!not-for-mail From: Marcelo Cantos <marcelo@mds.rmit.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: kernel Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 11:29:39 +1100 Organization: MDS Group, RMIT Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32D2EA73.25C7@mds.rmit.edu.au> References: <59ac1t$hq1@news6.noc.netcom.net> <59kckh$ctb@portal.gmu.edu> <N.122396.190522.99@scrantr> <32D22D1B.616B@elektron.et.tudelft.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: sinope.mds.rmit.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.3 sun4m) To: "J. Frenk alias Sigmund Freud" <eensteen@elektron.et.tudelft.nl> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:38253 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33786 J. Frenk alias Sigmund Freud wrote: > > Richard Scranton wrote: > Hey all, > > I have a kernel 2.0.18, and I wanna put a new one on it. I saw that > there is 2.027, and there are several 2.1.x versions. > Which one is the most stable to use? Even numbered second-level versions are stable, ie: 2.0.x. Odd-numbers are development versions, ie: 2.1.x, steer clear of them if you want stability. I presume 2.2.x will follow when 2.1.x reaches stability. > Thnx Your welcome! --mdc