From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262655AbTJ3Qz0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:55:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262665AbTJ3QzZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:55:25 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:778 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262655AbTJ3QzR (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:55:17 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:44:47 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen To: Russell King cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.0-test9 In-Reply-To: <20031030092045.A18808@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: 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 Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Russell King wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:26:44PM +0000, bill davidsen wrote: > > If the idea is to tell people to read the post-Halowe'en doc and a year > > of LKML, it is much the same as telling people to wait for a > > distribution. > > Isn't the purpose of the post-haloween doc to tell people what > changed and what needed to be upgraded? What about the > linux/Documentation/Changes file? Given that it is a year out of date and general in nature, it's still a pretty useful docuement to someone who does a lot of fiddling anyway. But what I think would be very useful would be a small (one screen?) HTML doc with links to versions which are current today, one page each for a few major distros covering tweaks to startup file and the like, and a page of things which aren't mentioned in the post Halowe'en doc, like the things that aren't available in modules anymore. Anyway, since I found that even my notes were out of date, and I took them as I moved machines from 2.5.4x forward to test9, I thought it would be useful. I'll probably do something for my friends and clients, but it will definitely be Redhat and Slackware only. I see no enthusiasm for helping users instead of letting them thrash. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.