From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757096AbXFUWRv (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:17:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756471AbXFUWRk (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:17:40 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:56119 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755318AbXFUWRj (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:17:39 -0400 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Zolt=E1n_HUBERT?= To: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:21:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200706212349.54983.zoltan.hubert@zzaero.com> <20070621230858.2a0b1369@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070621230858.2a0b1369@the-village.bc.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706220021.51266.zoltan.hubert@zzaero.com> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18bdPgNZbAsJnL9GB272HT/JKEbRelV031kHJq s+zXhwF+y0kDKuAKBXHbBAkceRwVfCrEbBuF9zK0Gqn1YOVpUB ePc2x8ND8VjNIEkjZP4W/SRhpVq9bP0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 22 June 2007 00:08, you wrote: > > So I feel that a turning-point is coming where a really > > really really (x 15) stable and reliable kernel is > > NEEDED. > > Its incredibly hard to keep a stable kernel side API/ABI > by just backporting fixes. Fortunately you can pay > vendors to do this for you and provide support, or if you > just want the bits run stuff like Centos Thanks Alan, but there was a time when a british bearded person did that just fine. Later a haired Brazilian did it fine too. Now that BIG bu$ine$$e$ are in the game shouldn't it be easier ? z PS: Centos ? WTF ? -- ________________________ Zoltan ________________________