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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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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-09 23:56 UTC|newest]

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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