On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 08:42:00AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > Excerpts from Peter Hutterer's message of Wed Oct 28 04:49:24 -0700 2009: > > > There's a bonus to stable branches. Any time spent trawling other > > distribution's patch sets is time _wasted_. Distributions find similar bugs > > but they also find different ones. Which means with every point release you > > get bug fixes from all of them - even for bugs yet to be discovered in your > > distro. That is of course assuming patches are upstreamed. > > Agreed -- X is fairly unique in that the bulk of development is done > by people who also work on a distribution.
Um, no, the bulk of the work done on the Linux kernel is done by people working on a distribution as well :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list xorg-devel@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel