From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932163AbWAYWNL (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:13:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932168AbWAYWNL (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:13:11 -0500 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:33554 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932163AbWAYWNK (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:13:10 -0500 To: Lee Revell Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch , Michael Loftis , Sven-Haegar Koch , Matthew Frost , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Courtier-Dutton Subject: Re: Development tree, PLEASE? References: <20060121031958.98570.qmail@web81905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1FA093EB58B02DE48E424157@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> <1137829140.3241.141.camel@mindpipe> <1137881882.411.23.camel@mindpipe> <3B0BEE012630B9B11D1209E5@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> <1137884582.411.47.camel@mindpipe> <1137949400.3298.59.camel@gimli.at.home> <87bqy0ro5c.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <1138225011.3087.29.camel@mindpipe> From: Nix X-Emacs: because idle RAM is the Devil's playground. Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:12:54 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1138225011.3087.29.camel@mindpipe> (Lee Revell's message of "Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:36:49 -0500") Message-ID: <877j8orm6x.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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