Re: moving up to 2.5 kernels

[John Haxby <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> # cat <patch-file.bz2> | bunzip2 | patch -p1 --dry-run
>
>  (no one get on my case about the redundant "cat".  i'm aware. :-)
>  
I'm name dropping, but Brian Kernighan remarked that some people do

   cat foo | tbl | nroff -ms | ...

and some people do

   tbl foo | nroff -ms | ...

and that while clearly the second one is "more efficient" it really 
doesn't make any significant amount of difference and what's really 
important (and I'm paraphrasing like mad now) is that you do whatever 
you feel most comfortable with.

And thanks -- you've got me going on 2.5 now.   The touchpad doesn't 
work and USB doesn't hotplug, yet, but I'm working on it and I'm happy!

jch