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Who uses 2.0???Who uses 2.0???Posted Feb 9, 2004 1:48 UTC (Mon) by moxfyre (guest, #13847)Parent article: Stable kernel 2.0.40 released Who uses old kernels like 2.0.x? And why are they still being maintained? I mean, if the requirements of your applications have changed so little that upgrading to a new kernel isn't worth it, then why is the kernel still being updated. By the way, I'm not criticizing whoever uses 2.0.40, I'm just wondering who they are and what they're doing with it :-)
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Re: Who uses 2.0??? Posted Feb 9, 2004 2:51 UTC (Mon) by macemoneta (guest, #2717) [Link] I know that a number of floppy-based recovery tools and firewall/routers (like tomsrtbt) use the 2.0.38 kernel to save space. I'm kind of surprised they haven't upgraded to 2.4 myself. There are 2.4 based single floppy systems (like FDlinux), so it will certainly fit on the media.
Re: Who uses 2.0??? Posted Feb 9, 2004 6:53 UTC (Mon) by wildpossum (guest, #17744) [Link] Well I'm involved in the floppyfw community and you will find that heroic efforts have to be made to squeeze new releases onto floppies. The most successful ploy is to use uClibc. tomsrtbt isn't even a firewall, it's a recovery floppy. It works fine for what it does and isn't developed much anymore. If I were the author I see no reason to start afresh with 2.4. Many rescue distros have gone to CDs or flash memory anyway.
Who uses 2.0??? Posted Feb 9, 2004 6:45 UTC (Mon) by wildpossum (guest, #17744) [Link] Well put yourself in the shoes of someone whose 2.0 based app still works fine. All you want to do is get rid of one or two irritating bugs and close a hole or two. Which is the easiest path? Try to rebuild your app on 2.2 or perhaps 2.4? Arrgh it runs like a slug because 2.2 requires more memory. In some situations you can't even put in more memory (think embedded systems). Or some other hitch. By contrast recompiling the 2.0.40 kernel is easy because you had no problems compiling 2.0.39 last time. So some people do need this release.
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