> Once upon a time Gene Imes shaped the electrons to say...
> >software. I believe that users of Linux platforms are being neglected.
>
> Which is plain wrong.
i.e. in.pmd (which I would love to have).
>
> 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.
I don't much care about distributions. I don't think it would make a
difference which distributions you have as long as people have the same
libraries.
>
> 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
I wasn't suggesting that you play kernel of the week. The move to 2.0.x
kernels involved library upgrades and was a major move not a kernel of the
week move. I know you can't redo everything all the time but you can keep
up with the major changes. I would venture to say that most of the Linux
users have upgraded to 2.0.x kernels and necessary libs.
>
> 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
See previous paragraph. 2.0.x is not the bleeding edge and is stable in my
experience.
> 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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