Re: Wha? 1.99.6 (pre2.0.6): no dragons alive!

David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu)
Tue, 21 May 1996 13:14:18 -0400


From: ulmo@q.net
Date: 20 May 1996 13:56:13 -0400

I really hope that 2.0 ends up being more reliable than 1.3. These
1.99's are awful (besides which they break my automatic new version
fetch build & install script). I have a question: is this 1.99 series
like isotretinoin, which makes the acne get worse before it's cured
(as in all the pimples come to the surface while they exit the body),
or is this more like alcohol, making one feel ever-so-temporarily
better before getting direly ill & sick & leading a path towards much
hastened demise? I'm trying to say it politely: are experiments being
done in 1.99 (aka pre2.0)?

This is the kind of talk and approach to bug reporting that tends to
cause developers to simply ignore you.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@caip.rutgers.edu