>> Santiago> There are a lot of packages that would have to be recompiled >> Santiago> for Linux 2.2. This will take time and a lot of testing. >> >> I can see pcmcia (28-Sep-98 is needed) and netutils (so that IPv6 is >> supported), but not "a lot of packages". > >But some cannot be ported at the moment: iBCS!
There already is a port of IBCS to 2.1 kernels. Recently I was at a client site where they couldn't compile a copy of IBCS they'd downloaded. It turned out that they had a 2.0.35 kernel and a 2.1.x version of IBCS... -- Got no future, got no past. Here today, built to last.