Re: The Kernel

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Paul Anderson wrote:

> You've got it mixed up here, that ISN'T our job.  WE are NOT the kernel
> developers, and once we start doing this sort of stuff it's not Linux any
> more.  We give the customer the OFFICIAL kernel, we have no right to hack
> it, and add more hacks, and eventually create an entirely different and
> incompatible Linux.  Same thing happened with UNIX, sure we want to do
> that to Linux?  TTYL!

While I agree that we are not the developers, I feel that one of our major
markets ( targeted or not ) is going to be small LANS who do not want to
buy NT Server.  Admins are likely to complain about the large number of
"destination unreachable from ..." errors in their logs because linux
will not follow an icmp-redirect.

In cases where a minor patch can clear a major issue, I think it is in
both our and our user's best interest to produce an interim solution.


George Bonser 
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