> a review of the 2.2 kernel. They state, "In the near future, however,
> software programs that can take advantage of the new Linux will be few
> and far between." Is this accurate? Do programs need to be rewritten
> to take advantage of the new kernel? Does a new kernel break any
> backward compatibility?
I've run some of the 2.1.x kernels, and they didn't break anything. The
only major differences I know of are in the sound system and the firewalling.
Those areas already have working programs for them.
> I wouldn't be surprised if they are dumb since they also said they
> "had to use VI editor" to tweak settings and called this digging into
> the source code...
'Nuff said, I suppose. I mean, do we really expect that with an OS
developed in an open source code environment, we're going to be waiting a long
time for programs to take advantage of the 2.2 kernel? That's plain silly.
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