Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 1996 02:51:11 +0000 | From | hab <> | Subject | Linux is Stable: Kernel first them utilities then apps |
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Stop fighting. Linux only had 13 patches added over the 15 months between Kernel releases. Early birds got to try elf on the earlier kernel and it is the defacto Standard with 2.0.0. Gcc, Libc, Modutils, Binutils, SysInit, PCMCIA, PPP, Make, GDB have all advanced over that period of time. If a product was not supported with 1.2.x everybody was offered a chance to work out the bugs in the 1.3.x and 1.99.x tree so their product could be released shortly after the next release of Linux which is now out as Linux-2.0.0 Wow! no non-disclosure agreements required or development kits to be bought. Everybody was treated as a favored customer. The selection as 2.0.0 instead of 1.4.0 indicates a M A J O R change from 1.0 and 1.2. Shortly, the guys working on the distributions will sort out the matching of releases. And those of trading war stories on the net will help them. Then we will have a distribution release with major changes from the last release. Nobody should expect to jump from 1.2 to 2.0 with only the changes to the kernel. You must make the same changes the developers did along the way. Yes! the developers and those of us who anticipated the jump will save you making all the same mistakes we made and allow you to skip the intermediate steps. But please do not complain about too many and frequent changes. If you want that hidden from you. Stick with the even numbered releases as complete distributions. Most other systems require non-disclosure, payment of fee's, and favored status to get the visiability offered by Linux. And the pain of tracking is worse. Hardware vendor's shouldn't need to worry about poor software under linux hurting their market if they release the needed info unless the product has an achilies heel. Major quality vendors make the data available and thank for our interest in their product. Enough interest that we will take the time to write the software to make it work without them making the investment into doing for us. Note the HP home page on the CD-writer. If you as a vendor choose to support linux with binaries, beware extremely good programmers are looking over you shoulder and sloppy products will not be tolerated.
Hubert Bahr
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