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From: Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Vendor kernels unpakced
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 22:46:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01081022465500.02522@idun> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2167D6D1AACDD31196BE0008C7CF24DDAE0A18@issexc01.solthree.com>
In-Reply-To: <2167D6D1AACDD31196BE0008C7CF24DDAE0A18@issexc01.solthree.com>

Am Freitag, 10. August 2001 21:29 schrieb Phil Kos:
> > Just as it makes no sense to run a not-up-to-date release
> > kernel, it makes
> > no sense to keep anything but the very last on line. Just MVHO.
>
> I beg to differ, Herr Doktor von Brand. It makes more sense to run a
> not-up-to-date release kernel than it does to slavishly update to every new
> release without any pressing need for new features or functionality. Don't
> fall into the commercial software trap of "it's newer, so it *must* be
> better!"--here be tygers...

The problem is not what people should be running. The kernels people are 
actually running are relevant. Any kernel on a CD sold in the last ~3 years 
is run and bug reports will arrive.
If you choose to ignore anything but the latest standard kernels you loose a 
large number of testers and bugs will go unnoticed longer.

	Regards
		Oliver

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-10 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-10 19:29 [ANNOUNCE] Vendor kernels unpakced Phil Kos
2001-08-10 20:46 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2001-08-10 21:34   ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-10 22:09 ` Kent Borg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-10 12:51 Christoph Hellwig
2001-08-10 13:09 ` Marco Colombo
2001-08-10 13:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-08-10 13:47     ` Dave Jones
2001-08-10 13:47     ` Marco Colombo
2001-08-10 13:55       ` Horst von Brand

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