I'm sure that this will be an unwelcome comment but I'm just wondering why there is all this interest in this, and please excuse my naivety, relativity ancient technology. Considering the commercial market is moving very quickly away from 32bit arch and Debians obvious interest in remaining a competitive commercial contender, what is the interest?
is this hobbyism? Cheers, Andy moonet.co.uk On 17/07/07, Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:34:03AM +0100, Chris Newport wrote: > Why does a Linux distribution need the latest bleeding edge kernel ? > With no new hardware to support it should be easy to put together a > distribution with the last known good kernel and the latest applications. Unfortunately parts of user space often end up depending upon features only availiable in newer kernels. For example, one of the current pressures on less actively maintained ports is the lack of ongoing support for the old LinuxThreads implementation of POSIX threads. The new NPTL implementation requires kernel support which was introduced with 2.6. The installer has similar issues and even applications that you might not think of as being particularly low level can end up wanting newer system calls - squid and postfix both want epoll, for example. It probably is actually less work to get a newer kernel running than to keep user space support for older kernels. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRp0TuA2erOLNe+68AQL7swP/VmtOoikd9ZA40d1RjAZndbSeU8WpMy9r wja3scF0AJZEcwBeFJqtciNeDFyf5sHE/m1ma/6uNf27fESSJVg2FT93EFwMwPhe p0fSNgRyGq33fNxqJMfvzF+L/pn8h3Q4D11Zau5UfWKd5i3B70mpESQyQqLUty1x T3LaQMta7R4= =lTTA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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