On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:43:38 +0530, Ritesh wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02:09, Joey Hess wrote: > > Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > > So what do you people suggest in such cases: > > > 1) Intel 1000MT NIC sucks, throw it away ? > > > 2) Unh! Why don't you change to Debian Unstable ? > > > 3) Buddy! We are all volunteers. Go and roll your own kernel with > > > the patches ? > > > 4) Wait! That hardware isn't officially supported by us. Build > > > only machines which are known to work with Debian Stable? > > > > 5) etch beta 2 was released last week with support for your hardware > > So my question is: > I discovered it today. But there might have been many Debian Users who > might have discovered this issue earlier. What choice are they given > ? > > Is the choice: > Wait till etch gets released ? > > RHEL and SLES do a damn good job of Hardware Bug Fixing and Feature > Enhancement for the software they ship. > > Why can't we do it ? Is it just because our policy doesn't allow it ? > Can't we revise the policy ? ..we can't? I (not yet a DD) thought this was a simple case of 6) Somebody Volonteer Patches! ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]