[plug] [rant] 2.6 Kernels

[Bill Kenworthy]

I think you need to restrict that to either a case by case or distro
(which distro are u talking about?) basis - 2.6.8 seems fine under
gentoo (i.e., its got some patches and fixes in it)

BillK


On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 16:16, Michael Collard wrote:
> I am very unimpressed with recent 2.6 kernels :(
> 
> With the number of bugs, its resembling something that Microsoft make.
> So far I've found the loop module/code to be broken in 2.6.7 onwards, cd
> writing under 2.6.8 is borked, kernel oops left right an center & the
> kernel has stability problems with nvidia drivers causing lockups etc.
> 
> So far the least broken kernel I've found is 2.6.8.0-rc2 which only has
> one of the problems mentioned above. More or less just wanted to give
> all the pluggers a warning about recent 2.6 kernels, don't want other
> people to go through what I've been through. 
> 
> I feel better now.
> 
> Michael Collard
> 
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