From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 20 10:58:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from inconnu.isu.edu (inconnu.isu.edu [134.50.8.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200EA37B43F for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from galt@inconnu.isu.edu) Received: from localhost (galt@localhost) by inconnu.isu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02097; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:58:22 -0600 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:58:14 -0600 (MDT) From: John Galt To: David Johnson Cc: Pedro Timoteo , Subject: Re: top uptime! In-Reply-To: <3AE076E5.A0BAA309@acuson.com> Message-ID: Copies-to: galt@inconnu.isu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 More importantly, how many sysadmins can trust some of the new bugs introduced by politics in the Linux Kernel? ReiserFS for a big example: there was no real technical reason to include Reiser in a stable kernel (it's still unproven and broke in 2.4.2), the only reason was that Reiser advocates screamed loud enough so that Linus relented. Another big one is the ATA works in progress: the only reason it was included in 2.3.99 was that Hedrick threw a hissy fit and released a 'sploit for the older code. I'm thinking that Linux is becoming 10 layer OSI compliant really quickly... On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, David Johnson wrote: >Pedro Timoteo wrote: > >> I don't want to be TOO annoying, but could it be because the linux kernel 2.4 >> is about 4 months old, and since then most people have upgraded to it, >> ruining their uptimes? > >I seriously doubt that many people have upgrades to linux 2.4, >particularly those with servers. If 2.2 (or 2.0) is meeting your needs, >why upgrade to an untested kernel? Really now, how many operational >webservers need the new features offered in 2.4? > >David > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > - -- Who is John Galt? Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBOuB4vB9mehuYcOjMEQLtvwCbB/DU4AaQTpBrGFUXX9uS80TE14IAoNKW FxOeD6mhxgqomS+6c7+v7HLa =9Z/J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message