Linux: Looking Toward 2.4.35

“The 2.4 stable kernel tree has been maintained by Willy Tarreau
for a year, since July of 2006. When recently asked if the tree had
been abandoned, Willy replied, ‘no it’s not abandoned at all! The
difficulty with 2.4 is to get user feedback on patches. While in
2.6, there are hundreds or thousands of testers for every release,
in 2.4, I have to wait longer after every release in order to start
collecting problem reports, or confirmation of fixes. People using
it in production generally cannot reboot a machine in the evening
just to try a patch. Also, subsystem maintainers have less time to
spend on it and are themselves slowed down by the slow feedback
process…'”

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