On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 14:13 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Whatever happened to the idea of doing disruptive changes in odd minor > number kernels? From a user's perspective, a driver change is > disruptive once you get to the point where one works correctly. > Is Xen going to make this better or worse? I've always wanted to > install a base OS once per piece of hardware and never change it > unless I add new hardware capabilities. But all the packaged > distributions make me install new kernels if I want a current > firefox even if I have no use for the new kernel capabilities or > (as has been the case with fedora a few times) the new kernel won't > work with my running hardware. I think this is where you'd move over to BSD (or their way of thinking), where you don't put everything and the kitchen sink into the kernel. You keep the kernel for running the OPERATING SYSTEM, and treat peripherals as just that. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
