Distributing 2.6 [LWN.net]

Distributing 2.6

Posted Oct 2, 2003 15:14 UTC (Thu) by fray (guest, #5577)
In reply to: Distributing 2.6 by maney
Parent article: Distributing 2.6

...the only problem is thats not the way the embedded Linux world operates...

While SUSE can easily upgrade a kernel after the fact, if you make a million little devices all
running some prerelease of the Linux kernel, and find out there is a bug in it.. It can be
VERY expensive (if not impossible) to upgrade those devices.

As far as the embedded announcements go, they are just press releases... it will be a while
before customers feel comfortable moving to 2.6 (release).. They definatly won't feel
comfortable moving to a 2.6 "test" kernel.

--Mark

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Distributing 2.6

Posted Oct 9, 2003 9:02 UTC (Thu) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link]

I think the point with releasing embedded distros with 2.6 is to give embedded developers time to develop with it. It's not like you take an arbitrary piece of hardware, slap on an embedded linux distro and sell the stuff in an instant. Consider if company X plans to make some product, and they plan for a one year development time. Especially if some kernel module development is needed, it might be a smart move to start developing with 2.6 now, as it probably will be "stable enough" in a year, than to first develop your kernel modules for 2.4 and then port then to 2.6 before you can release the product?