On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:13:54PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> And while this was just a naming change.. it was a big deal to the >> cultures involved. Technical changes on the other hand have a bigger > > It *was* a big deal, because at that point, Red Hat had built up a solid > tradition of making really questionable .0 releases, decent .1 releases, and > great .2 releases. > Yes there is a tradition involved and people put a lot of trust into tradition to keep the idea that the world is understandable somewhere. ALT-F1 being a terminal is a tradition built up from somewhere around MCC and SLS. What some people consider a simple configuration file change is to someone else something important. And its going to get a reaction. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
