From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:25:15 -0700 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Bruce Ellis , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] linux and plan 9 ports. In-Reply-To: <775b8d1905011811112dc6de25@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <56a297000501180907140d571d@mail.gmail.com> <775b8d1905011811112dc6de25@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 32dfadf0-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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