[sclug] Not upgrading kernel to 2.6

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Sun Jul 25 15:40:12 UTC 2004


On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:58:01PM +0100, Matt wrote:
> Maybe this is a reason why having five squillion different Linux
> distributions is a bad thing. Joe Bloggs sat in his bedroom with his
> own "Bloggix" Linux Distro simply doesn't have the resources to
> maintain his own kernel and associated patches, nor does he probably
> have the resources to track and keep up-to-date WRT other package
> security updates.

I know I was rambling on Friday but isn't the mainline 2.6 tree still
going to be reasonable given the patches will have had testing in -mm ?

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