On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:02 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:36 pm, robin wrote:
> > Bryan Phinney wrote:
> > If the user is not prepared to accept the responsibility,
> >
> > > they should wait for those who are. Trying to stay on the
> > > bleeding edge and expecting no problems is simply asinine and
> > > stupid and there is no one capable of protecting someone from
> > > their own stupidity. Case in point, LG.
> >
> > Since when is a stable release "bleeding edge"? Bleeding edge
> > is Cooker. Bleeding edge is running alpha apps. Bleeding edge
> > is using a development kernel.
>
> The patch in question wasn't 'Bleeding edge' or experimental
> (alpha). It simply enabled packet writing to CD drives. A feature
> now disabled in the 'fix' (kernel 2.4.22-21mdk) already
> available, and various floppy images soon coming. A shame from
> my point of view. M$ has long encouraged and supported sloppy non
> compliant hardware (and irresponsible users).
>
> Now it seems even Linux users have to, or are willing to
> accept this, and demand that their favorite distro does the same.
> People with junk fake-Cdroms are now safe, the rest of us have
> to do without out of the box CD packet writing to accommodate the
> ones who don't want to be bothered with knowing their hardware.
> That think cheap junk non compliant hardware is just fine, an
> should be protected by others. IOW's back-asswards
Please excuse my own followup, I forgot to provide a very
pertinent link http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/
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