MuQSS/CK's Con Kolivas Becoming Concerned Over The Increasing Size Of The Linux Kernel

[birdie]

As the saying goes: "You live by the knife, you die by the knife."
You *choose* to live out of tree, you suffer the consequences.
Having a stable API puts huge chains on the kernel development, and can be easily achieved by downstream distributions (E.g. RHEL).

Gilboa

This can't be further from the truth: RHEL puts an insane amount of man-hours into making features from mainline available in their kernels. If you talked about using RHEL/CentOS - yeah, that's easy.

[gilboa]

Birdie,

Wrong wording on my end. Never meant to imply that keep an lts kernel is simple. My bad.
Nevertheless, my original point still stands, keeping a stable kernel API across feature releases, is the job of lts distributions, not the kernel devs. (Especially given the fact that lts kernels do exist).

Gilboa

[Rallos Zek]

Do read about the BSD lawsuit. That's the real reason Linux took off, rather than some BSD.

Bullshit! That excuse as been debunked so many times.