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From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:06:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
>> it is not about minorities. It is about closed source crap. Nobody can
>> fix that execpt vmware. Why should people suffer because vmware is slow?
>
> This was fixed in the vmware overlay ages ago. You could blame the devs,
> although I wouldn't, for not getting it into the stable tree before the
> 2.6.25 kernel went stable.
>
> Now trying to get VMware to work with 2.6.26, I wish it wasn't so good,
> then it would be much easier to switch to VirtualBox :(
Now that makes sense. A screwup or accident is plausible. And I agree with the
sentiment about VMware. I'd like to ditch it for an OpenSource replacement, but
it's too good.
<my turn to rant> There was about a decade where I used M$ products for the same
reason. Software doesn't succeed because of political purity, but because of
excellence and hard work. Linux, like anything else in a free market (of money
ideas or anything else) has to work for its success, not rest on its
laurels. More
simply, Linux has succeeded to the extent it's better and only
indirectly because
of its development model.
</rant>
BTW: I told a few other faculty about my difficulties: here's a
typical reaction:
> It's an obvious question, but... are they freakin' insane? VMWare is one of the
> few really good pieces of general-market software that supports Linux. Why
> on earth would the linux community cut them off?
>
> Harumph!
Mind you, I'm not certain who cut who off, but I'll be glad to report
there's a serious
effort to fix this.
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD