Re: FWD: RMS and Debian on his Toshiba

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Raul Miller wrote:
> > Then again, the pcmcia utilities have not been folded into the
> > kernel, which would tend to automatically solve this problem.

Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzzard@issquared.co.uk> wrote:
> No it would not, as kernel's don't get updated in stable releases
> either.

Largely because it's such a pain updating all the auxillary packages
which must be maintained in lock-step with the kernel (such as pcmcia).

The stable kernels are, in and of themselves, well tested and stable.
However, we have a commitment to produce a stable system, and there
is an additional testing burden that we can't avoid.

-- 
Raul