Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:52 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> [...]
>  
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> > of this code. I have apps written for Windows in 1990 and 1998 that 
> >    
>                       ^^^^
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> > still run on Windows XP today. Linux has no such concept of
> >    
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> But this not even holds for nearly all apps.
>
>  
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> > backwards compatiblity. Every company who has embraced it outside of 
> >    
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> The same holds (probably) for Linux apps (given that your kernel can
> start a.out). And AFAIBT by Win* driver developers even in the Win*
> world you have to change your driver because of a new Win* version now
> and then.
>
> 	Bernd
>  
No.  BIND was has been busted between 2.4 and 2.6.  Not to mention the 
whole libc -> glib switchover.
It's hilarious that BSD had to create a Linux app compat lib, and the 
RedHat shipped compat libs for 3 releases
as well.   Not even close.  Windows has won.  M$ has won.  Linux lost 
the desktop wars and will soon loose
the server wars as well.   The reason - infighting and lack of backwards 
compatibility.  Binary only module
breakage kernel to kernel will continue. 

Jeff


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