Re: Kernel 2.6 Book

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On 10/14/05, Fawad Lateef <fawadlateef@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/14/05, Fabiano Ramos <fabiano.ramos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 10/14/05, Fawad Lateef <fawadlateef@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I think minor numbers won't make much difference for books and
> > > documents/articles .... b/c the main concept comes from the major
> > > kernel release like 2.6 and when someone became use-to with kernel he
> > > can get the difference between minor versions it-self  .......
> > >
> >
> > It was like that up to 2.4, but in 2.6 things are going quite messy,
> > with lots of significant changes.
> >
> >
>
> Ya, you are right !!! but the point which I want to mention is not
> every book can cover the whole changes occuring with-in the minor
> kernel releases and once some one becomes easy to do work at kernel
> level then he can easily get/understand those changes by him-self by
> going through the code ....... :)
>
> --

Agreed! I just think that they should at least MENTION the full
version on which
they are based,  just to avoid confusion.

Cheers!


> Fawad Lateef
>

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