Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500
> Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16?
> > 
> > e.g. how many downloads does it get?
> 
> I've often wondered that myself, as I'm concerned for it to continue
> to be maintained. I'm very appreciative of what Adrian is doing with
> it. (Thanks!)
> 
> I've been using Adrian's 2.6.16 kernel releases on two internet
> servers that I look after remotely. One of them is RHEL 4 the other
> is Fedora Core 2 (Ensim Webppliance). I'm especially wary of breaking
> RHEL 4, and the 2.6.16.xx kernels work perfectly except for the
> hald not starting (but that doesn't matter on that server).
>...

I haven't heard of this before, and in a quick test hald from
HAL 0.5.8.1 starts fine here.

Are there any error messages?

> Mike Houston

cu
Adrian

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