Re: 2.0.31 : please!
Manuel J. Galan (manolow@ext.step.es)
Wed, 16 Jul 1997 15:09:48 +0100
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > I think a "stable" kernel should be tested by some ten people with
> > reasonably average configurations for about 24 hours.
> > A "production" kernel should at least compile.
>
> 10 people. Some of the bugs that show up in 2.0.x show up in configurations
> that maybe 1 in 1000 or 1 in 10,000 users have and perhaps only after a
> week of continual load. On a 10 user sample 2.0.30 is probably rock solid
>
> A lot of people don't seem to realise just how tricky it is building a
> stable across all platforms/configurations system.
>
> Alan
YES !!
Just do the following multiplication:
No. of different mainboards x No. of different CPU x
No. of different RAM manufacturers x No. of different video cards x
No. of different hard disk interfaces x IDE + SCSI etc x Network x
hard disks x add on cards (sound, isdn, etc., etc., etc...)
Maybe it could be possible to build a different computer for each
human being in Earth !!
M. J. G.