From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel team: please make up your mind
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:56:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407091956.03495.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040709233923.GD31999@violet.grantgoodyear.org>
On Friday 09 July 2004 07:39 pm, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> Because we don't have to? That sounds flip, but I don't really mean it
> that way. I use a 2.6 kernel and udev myself, even on my work machines,
> and I'm happy to encourage others to do the same, but I've always been
> proud of the fact that we're pretty agnostic about the kernel; the user
> is free to install 2.4, 2.6, or even 2.2, and the process is exactly the
> same for each.
agreed ... while i'd love everyone to use 2.6, i'm not about to go around
forcing everyone to install it (which is what we'd be doing)
> (I'm rather surprised that we have a 2.0 kernel, since I
> didn't think it could be compiled w/ a modern version of gcc, but I'm
> assuming that it can since it's in the tree.)
who knows ... it's in there because a few users requested it ;)
-mike
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-09 21:15 [gentoo-dev] kernel team: please make up your mind Jason Wever
2004-07-09 21:27 ` Greg KH
2004-07-09 21:50 ` Jason Wever
2004-07-09 21:58 ` Greg KH
2004-07-09 22:17 ` Jason Wever
2004-07-09 22:20 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-07-09 22:30 ` Greg KH
2004-07-09 22:36 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-07-09 23:08 ` Greg KH
2004-07-09 23:39 ` Grant Goodyear
2004-07-09 23:56 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2004-07-09 23:56 ` Greg KH
2004-07-09 22:29 ` Greg KH
2004-07-09 23:01 ` Jason Wever
2004-07-09 22:32 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-07-09 23:16 ` Greg KH
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