> One comment here: Linux 2.0.x has to be reliable. The fact I work for Red Hat
> has no real bearing on it. In fact chunks of 2.0.36pre code come from all
> sorts of places - SuSE, Caldera etc as well as people on the net. 2.0.x has
> to be reliable for all of us.
Sorry, as usual my poor English betrayed me. :-(
I did not mean that the fact that you work for RedHat has any bearing on
anything. What I meant is that some GNU/Linux users put their own
customized distribution together themselves, and often use 2.1.x
kernels. So these users are less concerned about 2.0.x kernels and
patches that they will never see/use e.g. Jumbo.
People in your (strategic) position have to be more careful WRT what
goes in a kernel, because an entire distribution may be ruined by even
the slightest undetected bug in the kernel code. I used RedHat as an
example because it is the distribution I use and I consider it to be
particularly reliable/stable.
Cheers,
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