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    --On January 20, 2006 2:03:52 PM -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

    > But you're perfectly happy to make the kernel developers do the
    > equivalent thing when they have to maintain 2 forks (a stable and devel).
    > Go back and look at the status of the 2.5 tree - there were *large*
    > chunks of time when 2.4 or 2.5 would get an important bugfix, but the
    > other tree wouldn't get it for *weeks* because of the hassle of
    > cross-porting the patch.

    Weeks is better than never, and still better than commercial vendors. ;)

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