On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > Has anyone conducted any tests to determine what is the most stable (as in
> > reliable) kernel available?
>
> There is no such test because there's no way to describe "being stable"
> in formulas.
>
> You might as well like to stick with a kernel that has worked for you
> for a long enough time. If you don't need the features of 2.4, go with
> 2.2-latest.
Well, about stability: I'm running 2.4.19-rc1-aa2 for some days now, I
didn't yet have any problems. My sparc64, meanwhile, is running 2.5.24-ct1,
stable for more than a week of uptime yet.
Regards,
Thunder
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