Re: 2.2.2: 2 thumbs up from lm

Jan Willamowius (jan@janhh.shnet.org)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:44:29 +0100 (MET)


> I've seen plenty of people wonder if they should bother hacking, since
> they are afraid that thier patches will be rejected. This is bad.
> I have a feeling that a UNIX v6 filesystem would be rejected, so why
> would I bother to write it?

There is life beyond the official kernel distribution. So many things
can be built as modules and don't need to be in the kernel.
I'm more than happy if some of my stuff lives on sunsite and at least
some people like it.

Use Linus kernel if you like his way of keeping an extremely high standard.
Use somebody else's kernel if need certain features (-ac comes to mind..).

I guess it takes some getting used to hearing "I'll never allow that"
which might mean "maybe we both try if there might be a better way" - agreed.
But I still preferr that to standards being set too low.

- Jan

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Jan Willamowius, http://www.willamowius.de/
Microsoft does have a year 2000 problem. I'm part of it. I'm running Linux.

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