From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Christian MICHON" Subject: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:54:17 +0200 Message-ID: <46d6db660704190554l42ccae4ds861787939903ecb3@mail.gmail.com> References: <8b65902a0704170841q64fe0828mdefe78963394a616@mail.gmail.com> <200704171818.28256.andyparkins@gmail.com> <20070417173007.GV2229@spearce.org> <462521C7.2050103@softax.com.pl> <46d6db660704190522k29bc65e2x9f8d00707dc381a3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Marcin Kasperski" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Johannes Schindelin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 19 14:54:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HeW9X-0000Zd-TW for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:54:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S637753AbXDSMyU (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:54:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S637754AbXDSMyU (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:54:20 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.239]:61401 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S637753AbXDSMyT (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:54:19 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 76so594277wra for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:54:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=m0w2ySo64DKkMo6sIIPG+QesjzXdyLIm5hqPjN34Dvqd3fYJ8JKaqpGVGzn7ZUQt6kFGHePAyNjxYZOvFO74iHe8/S8Ihmt0mtxACtu4ttIM3ecDj4gWXSf8b5e/EkSVmS8mzgQwwcmcPCdTCaG4gjuV8r+R3H7yZZRITc+EFas= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=beztXbra90qSGBG7W0qo4xvMtZkXed+gLcTw1rg5kuO+VRHLDoUORv5wJZ6H8J8v8bkc7kgQuw2hhOLwgzrsx5r4abb8nLB146lEOtZVBcRtj0I3yNRTkgBOgjEZbKLcxlrNUZ5eYDYYCwlE2c/Hotl+58/Tvv6Bvp6yZekpE70= Received: by 10.114.181.1 with SMTP id d1mr709880waf.1176987258294; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.16.8 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:54:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 4/19/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Oh, but it is true! That's personal experience. My typical answer: "You > needed to reboot? What is a 'reboot'?" I agree it was the case in the past. > > My experience (offtopic, I know): > > > > In one day, I actually reboot more often my qemu instances with my linux > > test kernels than the current XP host crashes in a year. > > With a linux test kernel. Yeah, right. So, you compare an experimental > test kernel -- which I gather you stress test? -- with an XP kernel where > you probably do not even check mails while running QEmu, for fear that it > crashes? *lol*! let me rephrase: - I run some test on about a kernel I regenerate about > 20 times a day [I'm making a distro right now...] - my host XP crashes less than 20 times in a year I was not comparing both kernels: I would not be spending time on building a linux distro if I was not convinced linux is far superior :) -- Christian