[Gllug] Anyone using Linux 2.6.0 on production system?

[Jon Masters]

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Jason Clifford wrote:
| On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-2] Grzegorz Ja¶kiewicz wrote:

|>>How many people are really running 2.0.x kernels now?

|>Embded systems ppl, and most one disc systems do as well.

Most embedded systems I have encountered are running 2.2 or later and
the majority run 2.4 by now I expect. I am looking at shifting our board
support code at work over to 2.6. For the fun of doing it - I am not
going to use the new stable series until it is proven and even works.

/me gets out the larting stick at aims it at anyone who substitutes
Linux for Intel Linux. I do not know of anyone even really using the new
kernel on embedded stuff yet because there are so many issues left to
resolve and many architecture ports are still lagging behind.

This said I also do not know of anyone foolish enough to yet be running
the new kernel on a production server which is depended upon. Sure I
think it rocks and architecturally is pretty fantastic (Solaris types
probably like the amount of influence that Solaris design has had).

Does anyone here want to admit to running a production system with the
new kernel and why? The security issues are a moot point over time but
data loss and downtime are big problems and until I have seen evidence
that major changes aren't happening in 2.6.10 I am being cautious.

| Moreover users of embedded systems wont be eyes on wrt the source.

Can you clarify that? Most users will not be looking at the source but
if they really care then they can do so just like everyone else.

Jon.
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