Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:55:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:55:39 -0500 Received: from mhw.ulib.iupui.edu ([134.68.164.123]:44783 "EHLO mhw.ULib.IUPUI.Edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:55:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:55:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Mark H. Wood" X-X-Sender: cc: Subject: Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery --the elegant solution) In-Reply-To: <1011094507.19657.15.camel@zeus> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@localhost.localdomain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 15 Jan 2002, Reid Hekman wrote: > On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 04:40, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > Normal users should _never_ have to use > > kernel.org trees. > > Yikes! Sayings about never saying "never" aside... I should think the > goal is for everyone to be able to use kernel.org trees with reasonable > expectations. Yikes indeed. What's a distribution? Oh, wait, I recall sometime back in the last century I downloaded some diskette images called "Slackware 1.2". I guess that's my distribution. Since then I've replaced every single bit outside of a few /etc/rc.d scripts, installed a dozen locally-built kernel upgrades, etc. Now that I think of it, what's a normal user? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu Our lives are forever changed. But *that* is exactly as it always was. - 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/