Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)

[Alan Cox]

> Are there _really_ that many people asking for major changes in the 
> kernel to be done in mid-rev of a distro?  Or are people actually just 
> asking for current userland apps and perhaps drivers for new sata 
> controllers and the like?

I wouldn't describe the Fedora kernel updates as major changes.

> extremely reliable. Do you happen to know what kernel companies that 
> base their products that need to be extremely reliable on (F5's BigIP, 
> Avaya phone switches, etc.)?  Are any using a recent 2.6.x?

You would have to ask them.

> beginning, I might accept that line.  But I've had too many instances of 
> unbootable update kernels and broken firewire support to trust it with

The firewire layer has had its problems (to say the least), but not
updating it doesn't fix the bugs either.