| Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 20:45:21 +0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | 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:
> > 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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