discuss: Production use distribution? ---Re: [olug] Linux sysadmin position

[Brian Wiese]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:16:24 -0800
"Nick Walter" <waltern at iivip.com> wrote:

|LSB won't help a bit with the vendors I deal with.
|
|When a telephony hardware vendor tells me they only have drivers for Red
Hat
|7.2, what they mean is:
|
|"We wrote the driver specifically for kernel 2.4.7-10 with Red Hat
patches.
|We've never looked at any other kernel version.  We'll never ever release
|the source code to these drivers, and so you'll have to use that exact
Red
|Hat kernel because its the only one we promise that our binary-only
driver
|module will load into.  If you so much as think about using a different
|kernel we'll refuse to support you even though you paid us 25 grand for a
|year of support.  Have a nice day"

ouch! that almost makes me sick. so what's the point of running GNU/Linux
again? something about freedom? hrmm... this doesn't seem like you are off
in any better of a situation that that guy looking for ISA 3com network
cards for their QNX based system. =)

I dunno, sometimes I just don't see why we all can't just "get along". 
Statically link the binary of course, define what options are required in
the kernel config, ... but then it needs Redhat patches as well. =(

thanks for the info. =)

peace

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