[PLUG] Linux Envy: Another Perspective

Rich Burroughs rich at paranoid.org
Sun Jun 19 20:37:31 UTC 2005


Elliott Mitchell wrote:

> Yes, but in that circumstance you've only yourself to blame for
> instability. You first bought the hardware, and second installed a patch
> not approved by your distribution of choice.
> 
> If the developers release a new patch level release and the vendors place
> it in their distribution in their "stable" release without checking it
> for stability, then it is the vendor's fault. With a mere 6 month release
> cycle, you think Fedora is going through very much testing? Do you think
> each release provides a lot of new features? No and no.

I never said it was the vendor's fault if I installed my own kernel. 
That's not the point. The question is why would the kernel be unstable 
in the first place, if I am not installing from the development branch.


Rich




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