On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Dennis wrote:
> well serious commercial concerns do not use OSs that crash every 6 hours nor
They do - when the OS crashes because of the binary only driver and they
have no way to replace it or fix it when they don't have the source. And
when the binary-only module developer does not provide a fix in a
reasonable time they have only one choice - to stop using the hardware
that comes with a binary-only driver. On the other hand there are some
developers that provide open source drivers with their hardware - cyclades
are a nice example - their code was integrated in the 2.1.x kernel but
they continue its support. Of course there are bugs in their driver too
but they are fixed fast enough.
> do they use "experimental kernels".
IMHO late 2.1.X was stable enough for production use and it had too many
new features, compared to 2.0.x
vesselin atanasov
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