Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:30:47 -0500 | From | John Richard Moser <> | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 |
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Alan Cox wrote: |>I'm claiming that an IT infrastructure that has to support 2.6 as-is |>will be wildly more complex and more expensive than one supporting a |>truly stable one with the same efficiency. It keeps changing. New |>features must be added that aren't amply tested (and due to the 2.6 |>development structure, ample testing before mainline integration is much |>more difficult). | | | Large IT businesses already deployed 2.6 (SuSE) and will do so more soon | (Red Hat). These vendors are guaranteeing long term stable maintenance | of those versions. | | |>Ask Linus to start making 3rd party binary module support a reality then. | | | Binary module support is pretty irrelevant. Good management of out of | tree source code recompiling is a much more useful and relevant topic. | 2.6 has caused an inadvertent problem there because with 2.4 it was | *much* easier to grab 2.4.x and drop in a 2.4.y version of a driver. | |
And what 3rd party hardware vendor wants to waste their resources by repeting smaller versions of the one-time cost of driver writing over and over to accomodate linux, when they can't even accomodate all versions due to special patches some people have? So far there's been a rediculous but visible trend of hardware vendors to hold their source closed. Why not just chase the easier targets like Windows and MacOS?
I want Linux to be a popular OS. Linus I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't care, because Linux isn't a business (though some businesses are for all intents and purposes basically Linux), so this is pretty much a moot point to be arguing. Anything having to do with the marketability of Linux is pretty much not worth arguing; genuine quality in the open source community tends to be, though only if it encompasses only contributions from the open source community.
I guess this isn't worth bothering to argue anymore.
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