Stable kernel 2.6.38.7

Posted May 23, 2011 15:54 UTC (Mon) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Stable kernel 2.6.38.7 by proski
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.38.7

I think that the approach used to be "if you can't decide yourself based on the commits, you shouldn't use this kernel but the one from your distributor".

Stable kernel 2.6.38.7

Posted May 23, 2011 16:24 UTC (Mon) by arekm (guest, #4846) [Link] (2 responses)

No idea why so many people think there is some magic "distributor". In many cases there isn't. People are their own distributors/vendors and there is no "upper" one beside authors of the software.

Stable kernel 2.6.38.7

Posted May 23, 2011 17:34 UTC (Mon) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] (1 responses)

No idea why so many people think there is some magic "distributor".

Because this is 2011, not 1993. I would expect that by all reasonable metrics, people who don't use a third-party distribution (be it Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE, or whatever) are a fairly small minority of the Linux user base.

Stable kernel 2.6.38.7

Posted May 23, 2011 17:44 UTC (Mon) by arekm (guest, #4846) [Link]

Maybe small "user" base but surely bigger "developer" base.