On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 17:31 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > > That is, that once you have > > a kernel with working device drivers installed on a particular machine > > there should be no reason to ever change it again - ever. > > Kernel security vulnerabilities? Those shouldn't be there, but if they must be fixed it still rarely takes behavior-changing new device drivers to fix them. > New features? The feature set for a unix-like OS was pretty much complete more than a decade ago. > Improved performance? >From the VM-experment of the week? I mostly just see more memory use and worse performance from on older hardware. > > However, > > you do want to stay up to date with changes in applications, and if > > you install on a new machine you may want access to new device drivers. > > Or, yes, new hardware. That's the time you know you need a new kernel. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
