Re: Slashdot shitheads
Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Thu, 13 May 1999 20:42:14 -0400
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:46:45AM +0100, alex@eos.co.uk wrote:
> Why was the release of 2.3.0 kernel announced on slashdot? Now we'll get
> clueless fuckwits installing broken 2.3.x kernels and complaining loudly
> that it sucks simply because they don't realise it is a DEVELOPMENT
> kernel!
>
> The press release on slashdot made no distinction between the 2.2.x and
> 2.3.x kernels, unfortunately.
>
> How about we break 2.3.1 (intrdouce some serious disk corruption) to teach
> them the errors of their ways!
This is wrong.
We shouldn't try to be elitest snobs, the development code needs pounding
just as much, if not more, than the stable releases. A 14 year old tinkering
with 2.3 might find a very bad bug and fix it (I'm sure it's happened in the
past), etc. etc.
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