Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 1997 02:38:08 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.31 : please! |
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On 14 Jul 1997, Michael Harnois wrote:
> > It's a rough job. Be thankful anyone's doing it. > > How, exactly, is that attitude going to help the general acceptance of > Linux as an operating system to be taken seriously? Sure, the people > reading this group, by and large, are the people you speak of. But > people who aren't hackers, and who are interested in Linux as an > operating system, don't care why there isn't a stable kernel -- they > just care that there isn't. We've seen how easy it is to be blown off
There are plenty of reasonably stable kernels...depending on what you need from a system and what hardware you put in it. I've got a combined 3.15 years of uptime between just 5 systems. I was at more than 4.3 years between 7 systems, but some UDP flood attacks hosed my multi-etherport linux router running 2.0.27, and a server running 2.0.23 plus some patches recently had init and updated go weird at about 245 days uptime, so I rebooted/upgraded it.
Just because the most recent kernel available isn't the most stable is not reason to give up hope.
People not interested in working with the system and collecting kernel patches when necessary should learn to do these things or hire someone to do them. This is free software. You get from it what you put into it.
If you want stability handed to you on a platter, go buy a commercial unix and/or a support contract...and be prepared to pay through the nose. SCO apparently charges an extra couple hundred $ per incident even if you have a support contract and are reporting bugs in their kernel. I found this out when I accidentally crashed (kernel panic'd) a client's brand new SCO box by cat'ing a binary file while in a telnet session. It turned out to be a known bug in the ethernet driver...and he had to BUY the fix from them.
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