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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:Well, from my point of view... by Kirkoff · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It seemed more stable, but not a lot more so. I was actually running 2.4.15-greased-turkey with Al Viro's first (well second since the VERY first didn't work) FS patch. I think it was almost exactly like 2.4.16 otherwise though. Truthfully my "instability" problems seem to be not software related. My last two bits of downtime came from a power-outage, and a breaker going and me shutting down becuase I thought the UPS was plugged in to another plug. The one before that a PCI Card (My ancient video card) fell out of it's PCI slot. My hot swapping of non-hotswappable stuff NEVER seems to work...

    --Josh

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  2. stability is fine by Paul+Jakma · · Score: 1, Redundant

    [root@ns root]# uptime
    10:00am up 246 days, 23:57, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
    [root@ns root]# uname -r
    2.4.5-pre1

    this was the first critical server i ever installed a 2.4 kernel on. (it does dns).

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  3. What kernel are _you_ running? by Pointer80 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Just the facts:

    $ uptime
    8:26am up 158 days, 6:39, 7 users, load average: 0.23, 0.05, 0.02
    $ uname -a
    Linux XXXXXXXXX 2.4.7 #13 SMP Sun Aug 12 03:11:03 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

    I haven't had time to update the kernel or reboot the box...

    The only problem I had with 2.4.x was with the DAC960 drivers. After that its been running flawlessly for months.

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  4. Snakes in the Grass by bondjamesbond · · Score: 0, Redundant

    *thinking out loud* maybe, just maybe, Microsoft has planted code trashers somewhere among the people who contribute to Linux kernel code?