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On Friday 09 July 2004 07:39 pm, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Because we don't have to? That sounds flip, but I don't really mean it |
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> that way. I use a 2.6 kernel and udev myself, even on my work machines, |
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> and I'm happy to encourage others to do the same, but I've always been |
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> proud of the fact that we're pretty agnostic about the kernel; the user |
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> is free to install 2.4, 2.6, or even 2.2, and the process is exactly the |
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> same for each. |
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agreed ... while i'd love everyone to use 2.6, i'm not about to go around |
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forcing everyone to install it (which is what we'd be doing) |
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> (I'm rather surprised that we have a 2.0 kernel, since I |
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> didn't think it could be compiled w/ a modern version of gcc, but I'm |
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> assuming that it can since it's in the tree.) |
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who knows ... it's in there because a few users requested it ;) |
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-mike |
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