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DateMon, 14 Jan 2002 20:45:21 +0100
FromDave Jones <>
SubjectRe: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:54:12PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

 > > 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.*  
 > And your belief that you *can* know it is a key part of the elitist
 > developer psychology and implicit assumptions that keeps Linux mostly
 > inaccessible to the Aunt Tillies of the world.

 nonsense. if theres some whizzy-new-feature that Aunt Tillie really
 believes she'll need, there's more chance she'll find it in a
 prepackaged tested vendor kernel than stock kernel. And if not,
 then there's usually a good reason for non-inclusion.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
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