>Don't expect things to work if you adopt to "the entire Debian way of 
>thinking".

Actually, I do. I don't care much about what the debian project "thinks" or 
"expects", and I doubt it's what you claim as:

"As long as Debian compiles software on Linux-2.4 and
expects the resulting binaries to work on Linux-2.2,
the did not yet grok how to deal with evolvoing 
interfaces"

I've been using Debian for a while, and I have never really encountered issues 
with kernels. Besides, it's besides, the point. The whole thing would not built 
against a Linux kernel but against Opensolaris. Entirely different beasts, but 
given that most common software which lives in debian builds and works fine for 
most other "free" unix likes (*BSD, HURD, Linux) and indeed on a whole slew of 
non free (Solaris (well, it used to be non free), Irix, HPUX, AIX) unices, and 
heck, even non unices at all (Windows, OpenVMS), I doubt it's really that much 
of a problem. Besides, kernel dependent components need to replaced *anyway*, 
so I fail to see how your point actually has any relevance at all.

But that's just my view on things through pink glasses :-) I find that 
simplistic thinking ("I'm sure it can be done, and it can't be that hard") goes 
way further than getting stuck in negativism because there are some obstacles 
in the way.
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