Re: tlug: Freezing

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "mike" == mike fabian <mike.fabian@example.com> writes:

    mike> Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> wrote:
    >> no, but it looks like 2.2.0 is out or almost so... I'm going to
    >> try that.  Apparently upgrading from 2.0.36 -> 2.2.0 isn't too
    >> painful.

    mike> Is upgrading to 2.1.x more painful than to 2.2.0? Why?

Scott's an optimist.

Partly.  The other part is that when Scott does an upgrade, he pretty 
much rebuilds the whole distribution against it.  That will fix
problems like the modutils/ksyms vs. 2.0.3x "can't find modules" buglet.

This means that his working environment tends to be more consistent
and up-to-date than most people.

And of course release kernels have some work done to maximize backward 
compatibility---"feature freeze" does that somewhat automatically as
all the tools catch up, and also experience builds up in what the
typical problems are, sometimes getting kernel fixes.

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