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On 26-Nov-2001 at 13:10:41 Pete Hatton wrote: > Quoting John Horne <J.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> FYI: just noticed a 2.5.0 kernel on the www.mirror.ac.uk site. > > A note on Kernel.org > > WARNING: Don't use the 2.4.15/2.5.0 kernel. It has a filesystem corruption > bug in it. 2.4.15-pre8 or 2.4.16-pre1 should be OK; 2.4.15-pre9 has the > same bug. > Oh, ta! :-) I was actually looking for a largish file to download simply to see how one of our cache throughputs was going. I picked the mirror site, and then thought the linux kernels are usually many MB's. I wasn't intending to use it - not now anyway! - but simply noted that it was there. Many thanks to people for the warnings! > 2.4.13 seems to be the most recent 2.4 kernel that is stable and compiles. > We've had no problem with 2.4.13, but as Alex said (almost) 2.4.16 is now available. John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.