Kernel development
Kernel development
Posted Nov 7, 2004 0:08 UTC (Sun) by dmag (guest, #17775)Parent article: Kernel development
Kernel development should serve, very broadly, three classes of user: private users, corporate users and kernel developers, and it is important that the needs of all three are met.
No, your entire premise is wrong. Linus and friends went thru all the trouble to write and OS and give it away for free. You imply that they are somehow obligated to serve corporate masters. There is no such obligation.
Posted Dec 8, 2004 11:00 UTC (Wed)
by alex (subscriber, #1355)
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As a corporate user he really should be going to his vendor to get the stablised kernels for his distro. Part of the vendors "value add" is stabilising the kernel tree for precisely the reason he mentions. The kernel.org tree's have never been anything other than the latest/greatest from the developers, even before the new model.Corporate Users