On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 18:43 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote: > This solves the following problem: > > Bill sets up a Linux system for Sally. She does a "yum upgrade" because > she knows it's important to stay up to date to be secure. The kernel is > changed, and as a result various things break even though the update was > fixing a race condition in a syscall implementation. She does not > know how to fix it. Bill was wrong here to leave Sally with a Linux system which relies on stuff which is not in the standard kernel. If she's going to use binary- only crap he might as well have installed Windows for her. -- dwmw2
