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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:06:28 -0700
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Eric Krout <ekrout@bucknell.edu>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.18
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On Feb 25, 2002  19:28 -0500, Eric Krout wrote:
> > Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2002-02@lina.inka.de> writes:
> > > I dont understand why it is a problem to release 2.4.19 instead.
> 
> If, hypothetically speaking of course, one were to start downloading a
> file that was a couple dozen megabytes in size and leave it going
> overnight on their dial-up connection only to awake and find that they
> had an outdated file, I could imagine them being quite pissed  ;-)

Well, that's what incremental patches are for.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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