Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Debian Kernels was: 2.6.0test9 Reiserfs boot time "buffer layer error at fs/buffer.c:431" | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:38:44 -0500 |
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 18:40:12 +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski said:
> There is quite a simple difference in -XX kernel and a distro-patch. People > have to actively decide to use some patched kernel for whatever their reason > may be. A distro on the other hand floods the average user with patched > versions _without_ the users' active decision.
Take it the other direction - people *also* actively choose a distro based on some reason (to be honest, a major reason I ended up in RedHat/Fedora rather than some other Linux distro or even a *bsd was because at the time I needed a *nix with an X server that supported the i810 chipset, they were the only ones shipping one pre-built).
On the flip side, I freely admit that the vast majority of things Andrew puts in his kernel basically get flooded to me, because installing the entire -mm patch is a lot easier than installing half of it.... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |