Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Sep 2005 14:47 UTC
Some prominent figures in the Linux community believe that as enterprises increase their use of Linux on the desktop, Microsoft will be forced to consider offering a version of Office for Linux. "When the [Linux desktop] market share gets to a certain point, Microsoft will, just as it did with Apple in the past, make Office available on Linux," CEO Stuart Cohen of OSDL said in an interview. My take: Mr. Cohen is forgetting two important things: Excel was first released for the Mac (1985) and Word wasn't popular until MS ported it from DOS to Mac (1985).
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Member since:2005-07-06
Incorrect. The odd/even refers to the second number (ie. 6). The 2.1 kernel was the dev branch that lead to the stable 2.2. The 2.3 kernel was the dev branch that lead to the stable 2.4. 2.5 lead to 2.6, and that's where they abandoned the idea. Technically, I expect all 2.6 kernels to be stable, but the kernel devs don't seem to think so. Ted T'so made a particularily disappointing statement once about the hit-and-miss nature of 2.6 releases and their stability. It really puts the non-professional development attitude of the Linux kernel in the spotlight.
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bad example there....
you upgraded a stable version 2.6.8 to a testing version 2.6.9
in the linux world, a version number that ends in an even number is stable, and odd numbers are not.
they are for developers to do testing on, so therefore things could be broken.
I am not going to give you abuse about this, as you have probably came from a windows background, and believe everyhting microsoft says about "newest is better" and "the next version will have everything working"
2.6.10 would have been the better choice to upgrade to