From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel team: please make up your mind
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:39:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040709233923.GD31999@violet.grantgoodyear.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040709230807.GA8305@kroah.com>
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Greg KH wrote: [Fri Jul 09 2004, 07:08:07PM EDT]
> And we need to shake out any bugs that 2.6 might cause people, other
> distros have already switched, why not gentoo also?
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. (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.) I believe that such
functional flexibility really does make us better than the average
distro (Boo Boo).
My thoughts, for whatever they're worth.
-g2boojum-
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-09 23:40 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 [this message]
2004-07-09 23:56 ` Mike Frysinger
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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