From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262072AbVADFNL (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:13:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262041AbVADFJG (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:09:06 -0500 Received: from warden3-p.diginsite.com ([208.147.64.186]:38092 "HELO warden3.diginsite.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262083AbVADFAw (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:00:52 -0500 From: David Lang To: Horst von Brand Cc: "L. A. Walsh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:56:55 -0800 (PST) X-X-Sender: dlang@dlang.diginsite.com Subject: Re: Reviving the concept of a stable series (was Re: starting with 2.7) In-Reply-To: <200501031424.j03EOV2t029019@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Message-ID: References: <200501031424.j03EOV2t029019@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Horst von Brand wrote: > "L. A. Walsh" said: > >> From what I've read here, stable Debian, it seems, is in the 2.4 series. > > Stable Debian is 3 years old. Stable Debian uses the 2.2 kernel -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R. Hoare