Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:29:34 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution) |
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:54:12PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Charles Cazabon <charlesc@discworld.dyndns.org>: > > Yes, and yes. Aunt Tillie is running Linux because someone installed a > > distribution for her. > > You don't know that. Maybe she installed it herself.
So she installed it herself, why isn't $distrovender kernel good enough? Keep in mind that just because $kernelversion has a bug doesn't mean that $distrovender-$kernelversion does. So yes, relying on an update from $distrovendor is a good thing. What if your automagic tool existed and Aunt Tillie clicked when 2.4.15 was current stable?
> > She is never going to need anything out of her kernel that her vendor-shipped > > update kernels do not provide. > > *You can't know that.*
Would you accept She'll almost never need something thats not in her current $distrovednor kernel or the one $distrovendor is working on?
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