OT: SuSE 9.2 preemptive strike

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:01:48PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
>> 2) The kernel on which the distribution is based is 2.6.8 as a base, and
>> they'll back-port to there for a while.  Historically, kernels have not
>> become production-level stable until around .18, so it's my opinion that
>> unless you -absolutely- cannot live without something present in 2.6, you
>> are still best served going with 9.0 Professional, which is based on a
>> quite stable 2.4.21+.  There are very few circumstances in which this might
>> be a justified risk.
>
>In particular, there are no ABI patches included with 9.x, x>0.

That's a show stopper for me on at least one customer where we're
running OpenServer COFF binaries.

Bill
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