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On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:19:45PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 03:29:54PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > Why can't this be done by distributors/vendors? > > It already is done by these people, look at the "enterprise" Linux > distributions and their 5 years of maintance (or whatever the number > is.) > > If people/customers want stability, they already have this option. If the kernel was stable (reliability wise - as in "not crashing") then you'd be perfectly right. In the real world, however, admins currently need to pick out specific versions of the kernel for specific workloads (try running a large fileserver on anything but 2.6.11.11 for example - any earlier or later kernel will barf reliably. For web serving it's another kernel that's golden, I forgot which). There are very very good reasons for offering a 'stable series' in plain source-tree form - lots of admins of real-world systems need this. Adrian, I like the idea :) -- / jakob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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