On Saturday, 13 June 2020 00:20:46 PDT Konrad Rosenbaum wrote: > (**)you will regularly find machines running a 2.6 kernel, some may even > run 2.4. Many GUIs look suspiciously Motif-like and if you get to see > the window manager behind the full-screen GUI it may look eerily CDE-ish > or FVWM-like.
The big difference here is that those are self-support systems. I do know of one big company that is running 2.6.32 on their Internet-connected servers. But they themselves are managing that kernel and applying security fixes as necessary. I don't have direct evidence of the userspace state, but I suspect it's the same: the software is constantly getting updated with fixes developed in-house or backported by their team, just not with features. I suppose a company with enough money and enough of an installed base of Windows could get the same from Microsoft. That contract must be in the seven- digit USD count. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel System Software Products _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
