Re: [ANNOUNCE] Vendor kernels unpakced

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>]

begin: Joseph Andrew Knapka <jknapka@earthlink.net> quote
> > > release without any pressing need for new features or functionality. Don't
> > > fall into the commercial software trap of "it's newer, so it *must* be
> > > better!"--here be tygers...
> > 
> > What? Most updates are bug fixes.
 
> Security fixes are also a good reason by themselves to
> upgrade a kernel, although security problems seem more
> frequently to arise in user-space programs.
 
amen.  i would even use the word "overwhelmingly" to replace "more
frequently".

pete

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