On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 21:11 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > I think, even for the average user it is a huge hassle having to > install a totally different distribution, configure all the stuff that > is usually configured with a new OS, like mail server, network > settings, soundcard volumes, paper format, language, time, install > other missing software, configure the other missing software and > whatnot, when all that was wrong with the current distribution was a > funky new way to get realtime privileges not being available > immediately. > It was just a suggestion. Many users distro-hop frequently these days anyway to get support for all their hardware so I thought this would be easier for some than figuring out how to patch two critical packages (PAM and glibc) with TONS of dependencies. And I think it's kind of silly that this problem was solved a year and a half ago and there distros that have yet to get with the program ;-) Lee
