The Future Of The 2.0 Linux Kernel

An Anonymous Reader writes: "The first 2.0 stable kernel was released over six years ago, in June of 1996. It was followed by the 2.2 stable kernel two and a half years later, in January of 1999. The more recent 2.4 stable kernel followed by two years in January of 2001. And the upcoming 2.6 kernel is at least a year off. Through all these years, 2.0 has continued to be maintained, currently up to revision 2.0.39, also released in January of 2001. David Weinehall maintains this kernel, and says, "there _are_ people that still use 2.0 and wouldn't consider an upgrade the next few years, simply because they know that their software/hardware works with 2.0 and have documented all quirks. Upgrading to a newer kernel-series means going through this work again." Read the full story here."

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Consider yourself warned

[flacco]

The 2.0 kernel is rapidly reaching end-of-life status. You are all warned that operating system updates (including security updates) will soon be discontinued. You are urged to contact your local software vendor, upgrade to the latest version of the Linux kernel, and sign up for Software Assurance ASAP.

Oh wait, this is open source.

Re:Used since 1996!

[Treeluvinhippy]

I wonder how many Windows 95 machines are still running and in actual use. Anyone here still running a variant of Win95?

If I was the head of a company that owned a few servers and I discovered that one of them was running Win95.

Well I'll make an exception to the saying "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft."