On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:25:34PM +0000, robert w hall wrote:
> As has been pointed out many times, there were late and major changes to
> the 2.4 kernel handling of virtual memory & processes - mkivmem in
> particular appears clearly very affected by this. If you have the
Yeah, well you know, the major changes weren't THAT major that it would make it
impossible to NT to have ANY time estimates whatsoever.
The claim is that W4L has rather deep hooks into the kernal. OK, I accept that.
The changes in 2.4 require that W4L be modified to handle the "new way" of
doing things. I accept that too. What I have a hard time with is the fact that
2.4 (2.3) was under development since before W4L was a product. To not follow
the dev kernel on a product so deeply tied to it seems reckless. To not offer
any reasonable estimates, even loose ones, shakes user confidence. Those VM
changes didn't happen yesterday, it's been Many months.
I understand about not wanting to be tied down to a date, so don't offer one.
But DO give out something like "2-4 months" which I could accept as reasonable.
I would expect several of the major distros to have 2.4 versions by then. If NT
isn't ready, they might as well close the doors and go home - VMware Express
will have the entire market.
The bottom line is that NT should be in public beta with a 2.4 version by now
(or VERY soon - like early next month) in order to be ready and stable for the
2.4 versions of the distros. If not, I doubt they will be in business for long.
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