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2.4, The Kernel of Pain

Posted by jamie on from the my-destiny-to-be dept.

Joshua Drake has written an article for LinuxWorld.com called The Kernel of Pain. He seems to think 2.4 is fine for desktop systems but is only now, after a year of release, approaching stability for high-end use. Slashdot has had its own issues with 2.4, so I know where he's coming from. What have your experiences been? Is it still too soon for 2.4?

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  1. Re:Been running fine for me by great+throwdini · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot reports:

    Joshua Drake ... seems to think 2.4 is fine for desktop systems but is only now ... approaching stability for high-end use.

    Cliffom responds:

    Been running fine for me ... Although, I do only use my box as a desktop box and not for a productive use server ...

    Throwdini the Great thinks:

    Cliffom could have saved 78 characters by simply writing: "Me, too."

    *rimshot*

  2. Re:The Old Question. by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but Windows doesn't have kernels like "Greased-Turkey," so there, nyah. Who wants to run "kernel32?" Boooooring!

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  3. Heh (horribly OT) by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your formatting reminds me of this post from alt.(somethingorother).metallica in '93 or so. It looked so poetic that I saved it. Check it out:

    Well about two months ago
    I found Garage Days Re-revisited
    on tape in a used record shop
    for about ten dollars

    I came back two weeks later and
    found Kill 'Em All with the two extra
    songs-on tape for 3.50

    I came back last week and found a rare
    Soundgarden CD (Badmotorfinger w/the
    Somm EP) for around 15.00

    SO, hope is alive, those albums are still
    floating around in some form

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  4. Press Release by edibleplastic · · Score: 5, Funny

    And in other news, the Associated Press is reporting that Linus Torvalds has sent out a memo to the core Linux development team telling them to make stability their "highest priority". In his memo he called this strategy "Trustworthy Computing", saying that it should not be the case that people have to use previous versions of the OS in order to find a stable working environment.

  5. It's what people have been saying for years! by Spunk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Linux isnt ready for the -

    Server?

    Wait a minute...

  6. Dude.. by OpCode42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude, where's my stability?
    Where's your stability dude?
    Dude! Where's my stability?
    Where's your stability dude?
    Oh! There it is! (points to linux-2.2.20.tar.gz)

    ;)

  7. RE: 2.4.x and feeling the pain. by fshalor · · Score: 2, Funny
    Here goes, in order of when I used them. Pain index is on a scale from 0-499, 500 being sheer, Hell's Chicken Agony. :) Just for reference: PI of Windows 2000 is about 94.
    • 2.4.0 : PI=30 : Nice, stable, quick. Ran it for a while.
    • 2.4.2 : PI=68.7 : Had a few issues, USB didn't seem to work right.
    • 2.4.6 : PI=246.246246246 : ACK WHAT the F***?!? Where's the Keyboard??
    • 2.4.5 : PI=20 : Don't leave home without it. This kernel's saved my butt about 6 times.
    • 2.4.9 : PI=20+2^t, t(days)=[1,2,3,...] : I lost count of the reboot cycles due to my video ram being corrupted. NVIDIA Geforce2 and 2.4.9 don't like each other too well. Also, this really needed some preemption help. I had to ssh into my box about 4 times in one day to kill X and reset (or try).
    • 2.4.17 : PI=3 : S. O. L. I. D. {for now} all seems well thus far. I'll go to 2.4.18 in about three months of uptime. Complaint: no NVIDIA kernel option. Solution: Switch to ATI. Pending.

    Just my (22/7)x10^-1 cents.

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  8. Re:Well, from my point of view... by minus9 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why would you need a reset button on a Linux box?

  9. I can't resist by kindbud · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was the kernel of fire... the kernel of destruction... the kernel that took back what was ours. It was the kernel of rebirth... the kernel of great sadness... the kernel of pain... and the kernel of joy. It was a new age. It was the end of history. It was the kernel where everything changed. The year is 2001. The version: Linux 2.4.5
    Cue martial music

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    Edith Keeler Must Die
  10. Reset button? WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING RESET BU by BattyMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a matter of fact, my latest Linux box is coming together in an ancient IBM 5160 (PC/XT) case with no reset button. I remember when this came out (actually its predecessor the 5150 PC) and it was remarkable in its day for the same lack of a reset button, which was de rigeur for personal computers in a day when CP/M had reduced the battery of data-entry switches called a "front panel" to a single reset switch.

    IBM must be pretty confident, the reviewers figured, to leave the reset button out (Apple subsequently did the same on the Mac)(Did the Apple ][ have a reset button?). Bill Gates and DoS proved them (IBM) merely arrogant, and the 286-based PC/AT a couple of years later (5170? I know not the model number) had a reset button.

    Now, twenty years later, I've removed the reset switch I eventually added to the 5160 cabinet for the sake of DoS. I'll need it no more.

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