Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency | Date | 10 Jan 1999 20:27:48 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.05.9901100712180.2031-100000@corellia.edlund.org>, Henrik Edlund <henrik@edlund.org> wrote: >On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Alex Buell wrote: > >> On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Florian Lohoff wrote: >> >> > More disturbing i think are people pulling the whole tarball everytime. >> > I think we have to force them to learn how patch works and I think >> > we should do by releasing the patches 48 hours prior to the whole >> > tarball. The ones urgently wanting to have the kernel get the >> > patch. >> >> Make that a week! > >What about users grabbing Linux for the first time? Are you gonna force >them to get a old version and patch it until eternity? That is one hell of >a way to welcome new users...
A new user who's up for compiling a kernel is probably not going to be put off by having to apply patchfiles.
____ david parsons \bi/ The bulk of the new users will either be happy with \/ what's on the computer or on their distribution CD.
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