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Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 18:50:44 UTC 2007


Todd Zullinger wrote:
> 
>>> Would you moan at redhat if you couldn't get Oracle to work on it,
>>> yet Oracle claimed linux compatibility?
>> Of course.  There's not much excuse for screwing up interfaces that
>> an OS is supposed to provide.
> 
> Fedora's goal is to stay as close to upstream as possible and provide
> very current versions.

That might have made sense on the 'stable' branch of the kernel when 
there was an unstable branch for bizarre new ideas -  like there was 
when the fedora project was started.

> For the kernel, this means that the interface
> does change sometimes. 

That's why major revision numbers were invented.

> It is a simple fact.  If you don't like it,
> please take your case to LKML.  It is ridiculous, pointless,
> counterproductive, and IMO off-topic to bring it up here --
> repeatedly.

If the kernel team insists on pushing out untested, broken stuff (and I 
think that's a given, with no development branch), it is now a 
distribution issue to decide what is fit to push out to the users.  It 
is not off-topic at all, and I'll keep bringing it up as long as I have 
any hope that the fedora team cares at all if the update kernels they 
push out will boot.  And if they don't care they should provide some 
truth-in-advertising and say exactly that on their project page.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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