From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61298BC37 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 22:08:17 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiIEAHZiokrUnwckcWdsb2JhbACCIpkaAQwKCQkRBrwjhBgF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,338,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="35550389" Received: from relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.36]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 05 Sep 2009 22:08:17 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAHZiokrUnw6R/2dsb2JhbACCItV9hBgF Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net ([212.159.14.145]) by relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 05 Sep 2009 21:08:16 +0100 Received: from [87.114.1.46] (helo=leper.local) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Mk1YW-0003JW-AL for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:08:16 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries? Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 22:19:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <4A9FBF04.1060608@gmail.com> <200909051303.29059.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20090905120210.GB27838@annexia.org> In-Reply-To: <20090905120210.GB27838@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909052219.15206.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: d8d5adec4a37fb546f1cf2c381a272dd X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0100,:01 distros:01 2009:98 2009:98 lifespan:98 frog:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 binary:02 binary:02 kernel:02 kernel:02 sell:96 problem:05 On Saturday 05 September 2009 13:02:10 Richard Jones wrote: > On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 01:03:28PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: > > Linux is basically a complete disaster in this regard because it > > offers so little binary compatibility between distros. > > You probably want to use a commercial Linux distribution. Red Hat (as > an example) *guarantee* perfect binary compatibility for the 7 - 10 > year lifespan of a release of RHEL. You mean sell only to RHEL users and not Linux users? > > Building upon a decent VM solves this problem and many others, of > > course, but Linux has none. > > Not sure what you mean by this. Linux was the first _PC_[1] OS to > incorporate a hypervisor into the kernel (Xen or KVM depending on your > interpretation of the words "hypervisor" and/or "incorporate"). I'm talking about user space VMs like the JVM and CLR and not OS kernel hypervisors. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e