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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.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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