Kernel Changes Draw Concern

Saeed al-Sahaf writes "Is the Linux kernel becoming fat and unstable? Computer Associates seems to think so. Sam Greenblatt, a senior vice president at Computer Associates, said the kernel is 'getting fatter. We are not interested in the game drivers and music drivers that are being added to the kernel. We are interested in a more stable kernel.' There continues to be a huge debate over what technology to fold into the Linux kernel, and Andrew Morton, the current maintainer of the Linux 2.6 kernel, expands on these subjects in this article at eWeek."

Comments

An idea.

[BHearsum]

I don't really think this is an issue right now, but if it does become one, why not have two different kernel trees? One for desktop usage, and one for server usage. I don't see that this would really cause any problems -- 2.4 and 2.6 are still maintained. I think even 2.2 is maintained.

Who gives a wet shit?

[Legion303]

"We are not interested in the game drivers and music drivers that are being added to the kernel."

Then disable them, spoogelips. Don't let them compile in.

Is this rocket science?

Re:Just my $0.02

[orthogonal]

"I agree with your sentiment, but I don't think Linus should tell them anything. They aren't paying him to waste his time explaining anything."

Nicely put.