In <3931CEEE.6B505007@isn.net> Garst R. Reese (reese@isn.net) wrote:
> I find this really offensive. Since when do we have to buy a some stupid
> assed distro (e.g. SuSe, RH) to get what they perceive as stability.
> SuSe = RH = M$
Who said you need to buy anything ? Sources are out there. But yes, it's really
annoying: you need USB - you can use SuSE's kernel; you need RAID - you can use
RedHat's or Mandrake's kernel. You need both - you need to download both RPM's,
pull out patches from .src.rpm and combine them by hand (few times when I
checked RAID patches for recent kernel were NOT available from ftp.kernel.org -
only from RedHat's/Mandrake's src.rpm). So basicelly Linux supports this, that
and those just fine... as far as you have enough detective skills. Joe Average
is NOT detective (and why should he be one?). Too bad there are no central
repository for unofficial patches (there are few and each one contains under
10% of usefull patches).
> Garst
> -------------------------------------------------
> From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
> Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 21:03:01 +0200
> Subject: Re: Slow development cycle
> Hi!
>> * Although this is a topic that could start a flamewar, please don't.
>> * If this has already been discussed before (i.e., in _recent_, _applicable_
> history), just point me there and be done with it.
>> * I'm a relative newbie to Linux (only ~ 2 years)
>>
>> My issue is with the length of time between stable kernel
>> * releases. Take USB for example. 2.3.x had a relatively stable USB
>> * implementation for a while, but other messes prevented USB support
>> * from going into a stable kernel for how long? Two years after
>> * Windows 98 had support?
> There always was a backport of usb. Go buy SuSE6.4. Enjoy stable
> usb. Or go buy SuSE6.3. Enjoy usb much better than 2.2.X version.
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