Which is plain wrong.
Supporting Linux at all is a pain in the ass to start with. No matter
what we support someone complains. If we support Slackware the Red Hat
folks yell, if we support Red Hat the Debian people whine, etc. Everyone
has their favorite distribution and seems to feel that if we don't support
their's that we're morons.
On top of that we can't afford to play kernel of the week. I'm involved in
a group that runs Alpha Linux servers for a co-op net. There is isn't such
a problem to upgrade whenever something gets changed. But when you have
need of a solid engineering environment you can't do that. So we need to
wait for there to be a (relatively) stable kernel and then we stick with
it as long as possible. When the first 2.0 kernels came out we considered
upgrading then, but we had too many Linux users who themselves didn't want
to leave the stability of 1.2.13. Of course, at the same time, we had people
who like to live on the bleeding edge who wanted us to start building on
that days kernel release.
Note that we also don't run madly after the latest Solaris build, or
OSF-1 build, etc. We have to support a stable release and also cannot
risk jumping immediately to the bleeding edge because customers tend not
to, and we can't leave the market behind. So early adopters of new OS
releases will just have to live with being ahead of the SW curve.
The Linux boxes here were upgraded a while back, but that was after the
last major build. That's how things fell.
-MZ
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