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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:13:07 -0800
From: "Peter C. Norton" <spacey-linux-kernel@lenin.nu>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 future
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On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:11:50AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> Do you feel that 2.6 will be stable enough, soon enough for us to not see
> another RedHat 2.4.x?

IMO its too late for that.  AS3.0 has already come out, and with it a
probable 2 year life cycle at large installations where the kernel
will not move to 2.6 for stability reasons (by which I mean the
stability of the environment, not necessarily that of the kernel).

-Peter

-- 
The 5 year plan:
In five years we'll make up another plan.
Or just re-use this one.