-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > (also note that the kernel patches in question have been rolled into the > 2.6 line, which seems to be what everyone other than me runs. However, I > still see the Linux world as 2.4, because I don't trust 2.6 for > production yet).
I have been running 2.6 for quite some time now. It is ready. Go ahead and upgrade. > This is one I have a slight problem with. Is Linux a hobbyist OS? Or is > it a consumer OS? Is it both? Dualistic roles? Server class, even? > Trinaric roles? Interesting question. I think that answer might be > determined by how you look at it. I think it is all of the above. It is outmoded thinking to believe that a piece of well-designed software must necessarily be "for the server" or "for the desktop" etc. Linux has scaled down to PDA's and up to supercomputing clusters. I think one reason it is possible is that both of these platforms really have a lot in common as far as the basic needs such as memory management and multitasking. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFClpc29PIYKZYVAq0RAsF+AJ0Z5oN0GFerBbMc1okbca5l1A/qZwCcCVzg Amrv0+hHmryfgRQW4tWcH3A= =6Trc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
