From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 12:19:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 12:19:13 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:64520 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 12:18:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:17:15 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Jonathan Morton Cc: Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up Message-ID: <20010518121715.H14309@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Jonathan Morton , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3B053B9B.23286E6C@redhat.com>; <20010518034307.A10784@thyrsus.com> <20010518105353.A13684@thyrsus.com> <3B053B9B.23286E6C@redhat.com> <20010518112625.A14309@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chromi@cyberspace.org on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:59:47PM +0100 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jonathan Morton : > Not everyone falls into the "expert user" and "Aunt Tillie" categories. > It's a *very* big grey area. If some semi-computer-literate user (ie. some > friends of mine!) wants to upgrade their kernel so they have access to > newer hardware (such as a cheap USB webcam), it should be made as simple as > possible for them. CML1 doesn't handle that very well, I'd like to see > it's replacement do better. Yes. One of the reasons I keep Aunt Tillie in mind as a UI target is that if I can design a configuration system that makes the task possible for her, then I'll have one that makes it easy for this much larger class of intermediate-level users. -- Eric S. Raymond In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a 'shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length' at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. [...] The Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. -- Majority Supreme Court opinion in "U.S. vs. Miller" (1939)