Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:09:53 +0200 On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> wrote: > On 29/07/2011 20:19, Herbert Poetzl wrote: >> here the status so far: >> all the money so far is on 2.6.32.x while the majority >> votes for 3.0.x ... > > > Put me down for $500 on 3.x and newer (I'm on holiday in the sticks - > will send money shortly). As Adrian Reyer says, kernel development > model is basically that when you want to buy some new server hardware or > use some new iptables feature, you tend to be required to go with the > latest, greatest kernel... [...] > I also don't want to upgrade kernels every 10 minutes, so my solution is > to add the Pax patch to try and avoid needing to upgrade kernels so > regularly. Machines then tend to sit there without reboots for some > years... So it really does me no benefit for someone to carry on > developing for that old kernel version - I'm not going to notice...!! > Next time I need a new kernel either for a reboot or a new machine, > probably I will evaluate something much more recent anyway... > > Those of you voting for 2.6.32 or .38 or whatever, try and notice the > different between what you are actually running on your servers today > and whether it benefits you in the slightest to keep developing for that > version... Surely your 2.6.32 machine is running fine right now? (Mine > are) Surely the next time you care to install a new kernel it will be > because you have upgraded to some new version of the distro that is > likely based on 3.x? Don't you prefer to see 3.x be the one developed > *now* so that it's ready for you to move to next year? > > I feel there is a lot of backwards looking here. Think where you want > to be in 1-2 years time, not where you want to be last week Couldn't have said this better myself. (read: my vote is for 3.0) I'll donate 100 EUR from my private account, and will try to collect a few hundred bucks from my customers as they all happily use Linux-VServer, but i can't assure anything before beginning of next week. @Bertl: please send me your bank account details, so i can just transfer it via SWIFT instead of crappy paypal. I also think that Daniel Hozac should get some of the donations for taking good care of util-vserver for a long time already! Thanks & Regards, Bene