Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

From: Jon Dowland (dowland_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/30/04

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    On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:

    > In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I
    > have decided they would be a good idea. Debian certainly is something
    > greater than I ;-)

    I'm going to look at what these patches are. Back in the Herb Xu era,
    I disliked the volume of backports and somewhat untested stuff that
    was put in the debian kernel. 

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