El mar, 01-03-2005 a las 20:42 +0000, David Woodhouse escribió: > 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. Then, if we cannot stop breaking this modules we should think about creating a little graphical tool for compiling/recompiling external kernel modules (maybe a magic app and ugly application finding makefiles, or some special file, dunno). But if Sally bought a webcam that is not supported by the standard kernel, should we say to her "Don't use linux, use Windows"? Salu2
