Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why Linux is doomed | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 1999 21:08:50 -0400 | From | Paul Barton-Davis <> |
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>From: leitner@convergence.de
>It is people like me who do the quality assurance for Linux. >People like me who complain. And if there is just _one_ goof like the >FAT problem, there are literally thousands of people who will run into >this problem and be discouraged to upgrade their kernel in the future.
You just don't get it do you ?
We don't *want* "people" upgrading their kernels to any development version. Say it again: we don't want "people" upgrading their kernels to any development version.
Development versions are explicitly intended for the small subset of "people" who don't mind if (for example) FAT is broken on a new release, or alternatively, who mind *enough* to fix it. They are for people who don't care if it doesn't "compile out of the box".
If you are not one of those people, which you clearly are *not*, then please stay away from the development kernels.
FWIW, I *am* one of those people, but for the time being, I am consciously choosing to stay away from 2.3.<anything-less-than-100>. I have enough other stuff to worry about. It sounds like you do to.
The linux kernel developers "group" is a developers group, not a software release and support organization, although people do their best to help. But the work that goes on here is not intended, in any way, to supply you or anyone else with kernels that work, compile out of the box, or anything else. Luckily, by a happy confluence of events, things sometimes conspire to make them work this way, and every so often, attention away from other kinds of work into trying to make people like you happy. But that's not the case right now.
--p
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