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To: Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Vendor kernels unpakced 
In-Reply-To: Message from Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it> 
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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:55:48 -0400
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it> said:

[...]

> The kernel is a moving target. If you can deal with more than a distribution,
> you can deal with 1 or 2 kernel updates per release, IMVHO.

Just as it makes no sense to run a not-up-to-date release kernel, it makes
no sense to keep anything but the very last on line. Just MVHO.
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