On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 03:11:27AM +0300, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
>...
> In my experience the huge difference is for users getting better quality
> and faster support. It takes from several months to many years to get new
> features and fixes to millions of user via kernel drivers but it takes a
> matter of hours/days via user space binaries. This results a much faster,
> quality and feature efficient release cycle.
>
> The kernel part is indeed always the most problematic because fixes and new
> things take very long time to arrive to end users.
>...
I don't think that's true:
Why does it have to take longer to distribute e.g. a new version of the
ALSA kernel drivers to end users than to distribute a new version of
userspace binaries to them?
> Szaka
cu
Adrian
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