Örn Hansen wrote:
fredag 18 juni 2004 05:20 skrev Sid Boyce:
16 flames back at OpenSound by the kernel developers, some white hot. Regards Sid.
Man, reading those mail from the kernel developers I can "perhaps" understand why SuSE needs 12.8Mb of diffs that aren't in the mainstream. It's true that the KBUILD environment is borked in 2.6.5-suse, but what an attitude.
The man's original point was this, the extreme changes in interface stoppes small developers from being able to release code that works mainstream. This is true. Reply arguement is, that he's not using an interface that's guaranteed to be constant ... probably true. But the originally adressed issue, is simply shrugged away with "We decide, eat what your given". So, we have to continue live with the same problems ... like the one I'm having with going from i386 to x86_64 ...
Linux has a long way to go ... and to get there, it needs proper management.
I wish the distros would establish more of a rapport in the interests of Linux, the consortium that was got together to produce a standard kernel, led by SuSE, was an excellent idea, even then Mandrake and RedHat refused to join or even cooperate and that's the stick that MS used a while ago. Imagine MS taking a SuSE box and a RedHat box into a customer, grabbing a RPM and installing it on one distro fine, then having it fail on the other, it won't look pretty. On Tuesday my friend and I attended a Novell seminar and were given a package at the end of the day which included SLES 8 and Netware, very nice, they also gave a nice demo of iFolder and gave us a URL to download it from. Installation failed, it needs mono, so if many at the well attended seminar had tried it, they may be disappointed. One chink of light, they have said that they intend to make all their products compatible across all the major distros, so Novell's thinking seems to be heading us in the right direction. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE =====