[squeak-dev] Small diff for the new Joystick updates on old enough Linux

stes@PANDORA.BE stes at telenet.be
Thu Jun 23 11:05:14 UTC 2022


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[squeak-dev] Small diff for the new Joystick updates on old enough Linux

> RHEL 7 has a kernel version of 3.10, so just before Ubuntu 14.04. 
> Yes, that old. 
>
> RHEL 8 is fine with a kernel version of 4.18.
>
> So any sane person won't run into this problem which is why I do not
> think we should make any effort to work around it.  It is only us
> insane people who insist on upgrading only when it becomes a dire
> necessity will ever trip over this.  Or insist in working for giant
> companies which is basically the same issue.

In the case of Linux there are certainly several (many in fact!) flavors
that are of interest, SUSE SLES Linux, RHEL etc. in addition to Ubuntu.

The portability aspects are also relevant in the open source community,
without giant companies or without commercial applications.

Thanks for reporting the RHEL issue !

Regards,
David Stes

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