> > > > > Would be nice if at boot time 1.3 printed a message warning about
> > > > > its experimental status.
To Here:
> > > wait for an affirmative input indicating the the person has read the
Through Here:
> > > override this behavior with a kernel parameter for those of us willing to
To Here:
> Of course it should be able to be bypassed. Say a kernel command line
> option
>
> betakey=458739
>
> which is a random number that changes with each release. Then people will
What, do you folks work for the government or something? :-) :-)
By the time Joe Unix figures out how to download and compile 1.3.1749,
Joe's probably run across the fact that the 1.3's are experimental.
He'll complain when it breaks anyway, and we'll thank him because now
we can fix it.
Now, putting something at the top of the README file that explains the
things that the kernel has broken since 1.2.13 (as many people have
been talking about here), that makes sense. As does putting something
in that README that mentions the areas of the code that are least
stable at the moment (I'm dreaming here). But solving hard ai just so
Joe doesn't think he's running a bug-free kernel is overkill.
My $.02,
--Pete Harlan
pete@mymenus.com