2.6 ready?

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 07:45:25 -0700
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On 04/03/04 19:07, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> 
> > Hi Guys,
> > 
> > I remember some months back there was discussion on the stability of
> > the 2.6 kernel.  I was wondering if there are any recent opinions?
> 
> I'm running 2.6.x on most of my desktop boxes, and its been ok.  I'm 
> prolly going to wait until 2.6.10 before putting it on any production
> boxes.
> 

It's been ready for me since late 2.5 days. There was one mild screwup
(performance only, I skipped that dot release) in the earliest 2.6
releases, but nary a blip otherwise.  Things like lm-sensors have only
recently caught up, and those who depend on bleeding edge audio code
have complained since alsa is now imbedded in 2.6 and lags a little
behind the development versions. nvidia code was slightly problematic
earlier and probably still is when it comes to framebuffer crap
(editor's opinion only) which I never use. devfs users will note that
this function is deprecated (but it works as well as it ever did),
although there are some efforts to revive it. udev is still a work in
progress. If you prefer hardcoded /dev/xxx entries, you won't care much
about devfs or udev. I haven't used either of these very much, but the
usb and laptop support is supposed to be much better, if not superb. I
have a laptop running 2.6, but I haven't had time to monitor it closely.
Scanner code has changed quite a bit with a new libxxxx (can't remember)
providing the backend support.

OTOH, if you have weird sh*t in the way of peripherals, perform due
diligence before betting the farm. lvm has been deprecated in favor of
lvm2. I've heard mixed reports on raid setups.

I never had any reason to revert to 2.4 since I put up 2.5 (8 months?).
YMMV.

And, oh yes, xfs is now a fully supported fs. I don't know whether
that's good or bad, since I'm a died in the wool ext3 fan.

Enjoy,

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