Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?

Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-03T09:27:13Z

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>:
> Not at all - that's what up2date is for. If I want something newer than the
> latest certified erratum release from some vendor with a clue, then I
> probably ought to know what I'm doing.

OK. There are enough real barriers tere. Why leave artificial ones in place?

> Making it _easier_ for Aunt Tillie to install something like 2.4.10 is not
> necessarily doing her a favour.

But making it unnecessarily harder is *certainly* not a favor.
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Eric S. Raymond

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