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Re:All you have ever wanted to know about Linux on the mainf... by mweatherill on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @02:20AM (#2304191)
Your experience is with an application running on a mainframe and is probably typical. The OP was referring to the OS itself which is continuously developed with fanatical dedication to backwards compatibility.
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Re:All you have ever wanted to know about Linux on the mainf... by Someone on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @04:49AM (#2304415)
That "fanatical dedication to backwards compatibility" works even harder towards glacial development for the OS than for applications. Or do you think OS developers will ship a new, faster scheduler, tweak the memory allocator and the thread scheduler every month?
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Re:All you have ever wanted to know about Linux on the mainf... by rbanffy on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @06:59AM (#2304623)
Plus, you won't get five nines reliability if you tweak the kernel every week.

Mainframes are built to never stop, to never give you a headache and to never, ever surprise you.

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