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mips 2.4 vs 2.6 stability.

DISCUSSION Aaditya Rai 3 participants 3 messages Oct 22, 2005 MIPS

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Hi everyone, I've searched the list for an answer and gotten, "there's no stable release; check out from cvs" ;-)
I'm trying to figure out if there are stability issues with mips port of 2.6? Specifically for 24K? Is mips-2.4 generally considered to be more stable?

thanks!

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Quoted 3 lines · Aaditya Rai

Hi everyone, I've searched the list for an answer and gotten, "there's no stable release; check out from cvs" ;-)
I'm trying to figure out if there are stability issues with mips port of 2.6? Specifically for 24K? Is mips-2.4 generally considered to be more stable?

Use 2.6 if you are working with 24K. Yes, it is stable that's why we are using 2.6 and not 2.5 because the even numbers are stable releases. *sigh* Geesh, kids these days.

-Steve

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Quoted 10 lines · Steven J. Hill
Quoted 6 lines · Aaditya Rai

Hi everyone, I've searched the list for an answer and gotten, "there's no stable release; check out from cvs" ;-)
I'm trying to figure out if there are stability issues with mips port of 2.6? Specifically for 24K? Is mips-2.4 generally considered to be more stable?

Use 2.6 if you are working with 24K. Yes, it is stable that's why we are using 2.6 and not 2.5 because the even numbers are stable releases. *sigh* Geesh, kids these days.

That's the theory. In practice 2.4 does hardly receive any attention anymore; these days the 2.4 branch is mostly following Marcelo's updates but that's about it. That's equivalent to saying bitrot is creeping into 2.4's direction and whatever issues there are with 2.6 will be resolved much more aggressivly than in 2.4.

Ralf