18 Apr
2006
18 Apr
'06
6:43 p.m.
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