F7 Kernel 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 - amazing statements

[Rahul Sundaram]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>>> I don't know of any Fedora application that works
>>> with Fedora kernel 2.6.x.y-n
>>> that does not work equally well with vanilla kernel 2.6.x.y .
>>> That is what I mean by orthogonal.
>> There have been some examples in the past seen in bugzilla. These are
>> treated as bugs and fixed.
> 
> If an application does not work with a current vanilla kernel,
> then in my view there is a bug in the application,
> not the kernel.

Yep. It is still a bug that needs to be fixed.


> That does not contradict what I said in any way.
> It is the organization of Fedora that I am talking about,
> not individual applications.
> I repeat: in my view Fedora is becoming too complex,
> and would benefit greatly from simplification and organization.

You got to be a lot more specific than that.

> 
> A "spaghetti-like development" is not a bug.
> Examples of what I mean would be most audio and video aspects
> of Fedora-7.
> Also things like conflicting config generators,
> as eg system-config-printer contrasted with the web interface to CUPS.
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/022aug06/features/fc6_print/

> 
> Nb This is not a serious criticism of Fedora,
> simply a response to those who were arguing that I was wrong
> in preferring to keep distribution and kernel orthogonal.

That is your choice assuming you are aware of the plus and minuses of 
doing that.

Rahul