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esr@thyrsus.com said:
>  So you're saying the users should be completely lost any time they
> want to use an upated kernel?

Not at all - that's what up2date is for. If I want something newer than the
latest certified erratum release from some vendor with a clue, then I
probably ought to know what I'm doing. 

Making it _easier_ for Aunt Tillie to install something like 2.4.10 is not 
necessarily doing her a favour.

--
dwmw2


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