Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
These folks have nothing new to innovate here. The memory manager and VM
gets revamped every other release. Exports get broken, binary only
module compatibility busted every rev of the kernel. I spend weeks on
each kernel fixing the breakage. These people don't get it, don't care,
and to be honest, you are wasting your time here trying to convince
them. It's never stable because they don't want it to be. This is how
they maintain control
of this code. I have apps written for Windows in 1990 and 1998 that
still run on Windows XP today. Linux has no such concept of
backwards compatiblity. Every company who has embraced it outside of
hardware based solutions is dying or has died. IBM is secretly
forking it as we speak and using it to get out of paying for Unix licenses.
As annoying as it is, accept it and live with it. These people have no
sense of loyalty to you or your customers. They don't even care about
each other.
Linux is _only_ a kernel, not a complete OS. And in a very big development
process [1].
If you want a complete OS get Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, etc. And if you need
longer life time, support, certifications get SLES or RHEL.
Btw, latest Coverity reports [2] shows things are getting better and the
main root of bugs are _drivers_ (53%), and far away filesystems(18%) and
inside net(15%).
[1] http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/x.jpg
[2] http://www.coverity.com/forms/register.php?continue[]=open_source
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