Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 04 Dec 2005 12:37:33 +0100 | From | Xose Vazquez Perez <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> These folks have nothing new to innovate here. The memory manager and VM > gets revamped every other release. Exports get broken, binary only > module compatibility busted every rev of the kernel. I spend weeks on > each kernel fixing the breakage. These people don't get it, don't care, > and to be honest, you are wasting your time here trying to convince > them. It's never stable because they don't want it to be. This is how > they maintain control > of this code. I have apps written for Windows in 1990 and 1998 that > still run on Windows XP today. Linux has no such concept of > backwards compatiblity. Every company who has embraced it outside of > hardware based solutions is dying or has died. IBM is secretly > forking it as we speak and using it to get out of paying for Unix licenses. > As annoying as it is, accept it and live with it. These people have no > sense of loyalty to you or your customers. They don't even care about > each other.
Linux is _only_ a kernel, not a complete OS. And in a very big development process [1].
If you want a complete OS get Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, etc. And if you need longer life time, support, certifications get SLES or RHEL.
Btw, latest Coverity reports [2] shows things are getting better and the main root of bugs are _drivers_ (53%), and far away filesystems(18%) and inside net(15%).
[1] http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/x.jpg [2] http://www.coverity.com/forms/register.php?continue[]=open_source -- Romanes eunt domus - 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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