From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>,
Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>,
Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>,
Matthew Frost <artusemrys@sbcglobal.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Development tree, PLEASE?
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:12:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877j8orm6x.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1138225011.3087.29.camel@mindpipe> (Lee Revell's message of "Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:36:49 -0500")
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Lee Revell announced authoritatively:
> On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 21:30 +0000, Nix wrote:
>> Besides, the distinction between a 6 month cycle and a 3 month cycle
>> isn't all that great, and we have a 3 month cycle *now*.
>
> If you want to be a viable desktop OS which requires supporting the
> latest hardware 6 months is too slow. Many vendors of desktop junk come
> out with a new card every 3-6 months. Users don't want to wait a year
> for their favorite distro to support their new hardware.
Indeed. I'm not sure if any distros actually *do* release every three
months, but there tends to be *a* release of some major distro every
three months, and some early adopters really do bounce from distro
to distro whenever one of those releases happens so they can get at
the card they bought last week. :)
--
`Everyone has skeletons in the closet. The US has the skeletons
driving living folks into the closet.' --- Rebecca Ore
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-25 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-20 15:17 Development tree, PLEASE? Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 15:31 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 15:59 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-01-20 16:07 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 16:34 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-01-20 17:04 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 16:35 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-01-20 17:06 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 17:31 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-20 20:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-20 16:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-20 17:14 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 19:43 ` Greg KH
2006-01-20 20:56 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 21:06 ` Christopher Friesen
2006-01-20 23:00 ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-20 23:17 ` Russell King
2006-01-20 23:33 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 23:55 ` Russell King
2006-01-21 0:05 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-21 0:26 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-20 23:27 ` Greg KH
2006-01-20 23:52 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-21 0:03 ` Russell King
2006-01-21 1:38 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-20 20:25 ` Russell King
2006-01-20 22:05 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 22:54 ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-20 16:40 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-20 16:48 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-01-20 16:55 ` Dmitry Torokhov
[not found] ` <20060120172431.GE5873@stiffy.osknowledge.org>
2006-01-20 17:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-20 17:53 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-01-20 18:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-20 18:06 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-02-13 17:17 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-20 16:29 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-01-20 16:36 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 16:50 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-20 17:31 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 19:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-01-20 19:10 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 23:20 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-20 23:54 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 19:21 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 19:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-01-20 20:00 ` Russell King
2006-01-20 21:21 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 21:40 ` Doug McNaught
2006-01-20 22:09 ` Michael Loftis
2006-02-02 12:16 ` David Weinehall
2006-02-02 18:25 ` Michael Loftis
2006-02-02 20:10 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-02 22:05 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-02 22:10 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-02 22:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-02 22:31 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-02 22:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-03 1:29 ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-03 4:45 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-02-03 12:28 ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-03 16:04 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-02 22:01 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-02-02 22:31 ` Christopher Friesen
2006-02-03 5:08 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-02-02 22:15 ` David Weinehall
2006-02-02 22:47 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 20:10 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-01-20 20:20 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-20 21:48 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 22:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-20 22:14 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-21 9:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-21 14:52 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-01-21 17:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-20 21:50 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-21 9:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-20 16:53 ` Joe George
2006-01-20 17:03 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-20 17:33 ` Joe George
[not found] ` <20060120121116.62a8f0a6.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-01-20 17:11 ` sean
2006-01-20 17:56 ` Development tree, please? Michael Loftis
[not found] ` <20060120131120.338ebf17.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-01-20 18:11 ` sean
2006-01-20 18:43 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 17:11 ` Development tree, PLEASE? Diego Calleja
2006-01-21 1:56 ` Matthew Frost
2006-01-21 3:19 ` Matthew Frost
2006-01-21 7:22 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-21 7:38 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21 21:56 ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2006-01-21 22:18 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21 22:40 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-21 22:47 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21 22:51 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-22 8:57 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-22 9:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-01-22 16:09 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-22 22:59 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-01-21 22:49 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-21 23:03 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-22 9:03 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-22 17:03 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-25 21:30 ` Nix
2006-01-25 21:36 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-25 22:12 ` Nix [this message]
2006-01-26 8:44 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-26 21:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-26 21:44 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-22 17:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-22 17:24 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21 11:28 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-21 18:09 ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-20 17:08 ` Gábor Lénárt
2006-01-21 0:36 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-20 19:16 ` Greg KH
2006-01-20 19:27 ` Ben Collins
2006-01-20 22:04 ` Vincent Hanquez
2006-01-21 18:29 ` Johan Kullstam
2006-01-23 13:45 ` Vincent Hanquez
2006-01-24 15:35 ` Bob Copeland
2006-01-21 11:41 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-01-21 6:58 Michael Loftis
2006-03-14 13:57 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-14 14:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-16 20:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-16 20:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
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