Re: Too soon for stable release?

[Tim Cambrant]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:01:04AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> The "stable" series of the kernel is never really stable for a while. 
> A better way to think of it is as "that place where things become stable
> by refusing to take any new changes except bug fixes".  

Oh, that explains things then. Since I've only been using stable kernels,
I've got no experience with how the kernel releases really work, and in
what order the versions arrive. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

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