Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261855AbVADUX0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:23:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262133AbVADUXV (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:23:21 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:6283 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261855AbVADUUx (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:20:53 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:17:25 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Felipe Alfaro Solana , Rik van Riel , Adrian Bunk , Al Viro , William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Andries Brouwer , Horst von Brand , Maciej Soltysiak Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 Message-ID: <20050104201725.GS2708@holomorphy.com> References: <0F9DCB4E-5DD1-11D9-892B-000D9352858E@mac.com> <5B2E0ED4-5DD3-11D9-892B-000D9352858E@mac.com> <20050103221441.GA26732@infradead.org> <20050104054649.GC7048@alpha.home.local> <20050104063622.GB26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <9F909072-5E3A-11D9-A816-000D9352858E@mac.com> <85546E06-5E50-11D9-A816-000D9352858E@mac.com> <20050104200912.GA22075@alpha.home.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050104200912.GA22075@alpha.home.local> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 884 Lines: 20 On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:59:51PM +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: >> I know I can choose open software and hardware vendors compatible with >> Linux, but sometimes I cannot. I like VMware, and I use it a lot. I'm >> not willing to sacrifice it, and that's the reason I think 2.6 must >> fork as soon as possible into 2.7. On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:09:12PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Well, it will be simpler when vmware authors will be fed up too and switch > to another OS (I'm not talking about the one which you cannot use in console > mode), you'll just have to follow them :-) OpenSolaris defections already? heh -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/