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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:06:35
Message-Id: 200807241806.30065.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable? by Kevin O'Gorman
1 On Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Sebastian Wiesner
3
4 > However, may I point out that a great deal of the kernel is in support
5 > of minorities
6 > of users? Especially in the device drivers. There may not be another
7 > machine on the planet with the exact mix of devices and features in my
8 > kernel. That is not,
9 > I hope, a reason for you to squelch my concerns, since the same is true of
10 > a great many individual users here. Minorities may collectively even
11 > be the majority.
12
13 it is not about minorities. It is about closed source crap. Nobody can fix
14 that execpt vmware. Why should people suffer because vmware is slow?

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Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable? "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@×××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>