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From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] linux and plan 9 ports.
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:25:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501181223010.28635@linux.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <775b8d1905011811112dc6de25@mail.gmail.com>



On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Bruce Ellis wrote:

> it's so large and has had so many hands in it that it is basically
> unmaintainable.  i worked with someone a few years ago who would
> literally update his linux distribution *daily*.  it would "work" some
> days.


yeah, I'm seeing this here. Linux is into "fail because it fails" mode. 

Funny: I have an old X24 and a new T41. Last set of upgrades to SuSE, it
turns out the old X24 can only run new kernels, since 2.4.xyz busted
somehere; 2.6.10 is fine on the X24. The new T41, however, can only run
old kernels. So for the newest kernels I use my older laptop.

Of course, a lot of this is the fact that PC hardware sucks so bad, but 
Linux is still getting pretty complex pretty fast. I think it passed 
Solaris a while ago. 

ron


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-18 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-18 17:07 Noah Evans
2005-01-18 19:11 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-01-18 19:25   ` Ronald G. Minnich [this message]
2005-01-19  1:38     ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-01-19  1:37       ` Charles Forsyth
2005-01-19  1:47         ` Charles Forsyth
2005-01-19  4:13           ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-01-20  1:22           ` William Josephson
2005-01-19  4:12       ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-01-20  1:20     ` William Josephson
2005-01-20  1:16 ` William Josephson

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