Re: starting with 2.7

[John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>]

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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).
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| 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.
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|>Ask Linus to start making 3rd party binary module support a reality then.
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| 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.
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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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