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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. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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