dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Oct 26 06:06:20 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 18:24 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Companies do not spend hundreds of millions of dollars (conservatively
> estimated at this point) completely retooling firmware to something
> that has about as many lines of code as the linux kernel, and
> *requiring* manufacturers to enable a feature that obviates problems
> for a mere 5% let alone 0.000001%.

I don't know if I have as much faith as that in the computer industry.
Companies *do* spend and make millions on bad ideas, we have decades of
evidence in that.  From stupidities through to the extortionate.


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