[ale] kernel numbering

[Jonathan Rickman]

For those who don't feel like reading the whole thread...

Summary: We need to devise a method whereby we trick unsuspecting
users in to compiling and running beta releases.

Now I'm not a kernel developer. In fact, in my 12 odd years of using
Linux I have only _needed_ to look at the kernel source a handful of
times. I have only fixed one bug, and as it turns out, by the time I
had fumbled around and come up with a patch...someone else had already
written, tested, submitted, and had theirs committed. I have no
problem running the bleeding edge stuff on non-critical systems, but
this smacks of outright deception and I don't like it one damn bit. I
totally understand the motive behind it, but I don't think the end
justifies the means. Maybe I'm reacting a bit too harshly...I dunno.

--
Jonathan 


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:00:28 -0500, James Baldwin <jbaldwin at antinode.net> wrote:
> For the LKM thread on this issue:
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/29288/thread
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> James Baldwin
> hkp://pgp.mit.edu/jbaldwin@antinode.net
> "Syntatic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."
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