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Greg KH wrote: [Fri Jul 09 2004, 07:08:07PM EDT] |
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> And we need to shake out any bugs that 2.6 might cause people, other |
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> distros have already switched, why not gentoo also? |
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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. (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.) I believe that such |
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functional flexibility really does make us better than the average |
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distro (Boo Boo). |
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My thoughts, for whatever they're worth. |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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