Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Sep 1999 23:17:36 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: config-menus |
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On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 01:20:41AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> What is the difference between experimental/dangerous, except the latter > scares people.
Experimental may just not work as advertised, or indeed at all, or perhaps oops harmlessly. Dangerous eats things for breakfast, mainly filesystems, I guess.
So, the PPP packet filtering stuff I'm currently putting off finishing would be "experimental", whereas the NTFS write support is "dangerous" because I /know/ it *can* eat filesystems, before breakfast, without spoiling its appetite..
-- Eagles may soar, but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines.
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