2.6.31 kernel

[Thomas Cameron]

On 08/30/2009 01:33 PM, Technomage wrote:
> Of course, we cannot DEMAND that the developers fix these problems

Sure you can.  Buy a commercially supported distro like Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.  Red Hat has hired many of the "top guns" in the OSS
community so they can work on that stuff.

> (as
> they are unpaid, etc),

Not so much any more.  Red Hat, IBM, Intel and many other very large
shops have hired a boatload of Linux developers.  The days of the lone
hacker in his garage are mostly gone.  That's not to say there aren't
still a bunch of them out there, but most of the really hard stuff is
done by really clever folks who work for big companies with large scale
labs.

Thomas