On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:40 -0600, "Jeff Epler" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:41:58AM -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > Is there an official cut-off of support for old kernels in master? > > Not really. I like the idea that we continue to work on older kernels, > and it's occasionally useful to run emc on an old 6.06 system I have > (master still compiles there, last I checked).
My shoptask is running 6.06, as are most of the other computers in my house. My most recent PC build was in 2007 (not an EMC machine). I installed Dapper and have been afraid to hit the "upgrade to 8.04" button. That machine is my webserver, vmware server, etc, and I know the upgrade won't be transparent. "If it ain't broke don't fix it." > On the other hand, we target a few specific kernels (for 2.4 we'll > target the current 8.04 kernel and whatever ends up on 10.04). In the > absence of other active maintainers, it's simply not possible to make > sure we're *actually* compatible with a wider range. One bad thing that Linux has copied from windows is that new versions get bigger and slower. Given that the best latency sometimes seems to come from older motherboards and CPUs, and that machine tools have MUCH longer useful lives than normal computers, I'd like to avoid forcing people to upgrade distros if we can. John Kasunich -- John Kasunich [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
