Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030449AbVKIAQI (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:16:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030450AbVKIAQH (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:16:07 -0500 Received: from smtp.rdslink.ro ([193.231.236.97]:45283 "EHLO smtp.rdslink.ro") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030449AbVKIAQF (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:16:05 -0500 X-Mail-Scanner: Scanned by qSheff 1.0 (http://www.enderunix.org/qsheff/) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 02:16:03 +0200 (EET) From: caszonyi@rdslink.ro X-X-Sender: sony@grinch.ro Reply-To: Calin Szonyi To: Bernd Petrovitsch cc: LKML Subject: Re: New Linux Development Model In-Reply-To: <1131301063.7587.17.camel@gimli.at.home> Message-ID: References: <436C7E77.3080601@ed-soft.at> <20051105122958.7a2cd8c6.khali@linux-fr.org> <436CB162.5070100@ed-soft.at> <1131301063.7587.17.camel@gimli.at.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 795 Lines: 23 On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > Who do you mean with "user"? > A typical "user" just installs $DISTRIBUTION (be it a free or commercial > one) and that's it. *If* the bug is severe enough (and the relevant > maintainers does it) there will be a new rpm/deb/... with the newest > kernel release or a backport. > If not, you can do it on your own anyways. > But then you are half a programmer and more like a sys-admin and no > longer a "user". Voila. > So a user which is not typical user should not use a Linux distribution ? -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/