Linux is not about choice [was Re: Fedora too cutting edge?]

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 06:52:52AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 15:58 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > Linux is about choice.
> > 
> > If I could only have one thing this year, it would be to eliminate that
> > meme from the collective consciousness.  It is a disease.  It strangles
> > the mind and ensures you can never change anything ever because someone
> > somewhere has OCD'd their environment exactly how they like it and how
> > dare you change it on them you're so mean and next time I have friends
> > over for Buffy night you're not invited mom he's sitting on my side
> > again.
> 
> Damn you where's my FreeBSD kernel package for Fedora?

I guess that you are joking, but I think that a FreeBSD kernel package
is perfectly right for fedora. It should not go in a stable release
until it is stable, and could be less well integrated than the linux
kernel but it would definitively be something interesting.

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Pat