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Operational Testing of Linux Kernel 2.5.x
G3ckoG33k writes "The Open Source Development's Lab has begun operational testing of the 2.5.x Kernel: "The staff at OSDL has been involved with development and testing of 2.5 since the beginning and we've noticed that it seems to be very stable for a development tree. So good, in fact, that we think it is ready to be tested in a production environment. We have planned and begun execution of a project to test the 2.5 kernel in our data center using our production environment. The project includes lots of testing and lots of escape hatches so we don't run recklessly off the edge. We began with some of the simpler, less critical servers and, as we build confidence, are moving to the more complex servers. Today we have several servers running 2.5 and within a month we'll have most of the data center migrated to 2.5." Can anyone say Dare Devils?"
"we've noticed that it seems to be very stable for a development tree."
And, in other news, Kernel developers worldwide learned that the development tree was too stable and announced sweeping changes to the VM, IDE, and Scheduler modules.
Said one developer, "it's not bleeding edge unless someone is bleeding. It pains me to think that we've actually got this thing stabilized with an odd-number dev version. We normally don't go for that until we go to the even-number release versions, usually at a x.y.5 or x.y.6 release."
Don't sweat it. Many ppl here use MS windows and are plenty use to lots of downtime, crashes, and loss of data.
You've got to stay away from odd numbers, remember all the problems with everybody's 3.0 4.0 7.0 8.0 releases?
Oh no, those were the even numbers.......