[wplug] wow

James O'Kane jo2y at midnightlinux.com
Wed Sep 24 13:46:49 EDT 2003


This one time, at band camp, Lance Tost said:

> > 	I too have had issues with up2date - in my case annihilating Mozilla
> > and destroying all "bluecurse" menu icons.  As far as kernel updates, well,
> > that's always had a "caveat emptor" feel to it IMHO.  I have set up2date to
> 
> Sure, but my point was that I've personally never experienced a problem 
> because of a Solaris kernel patch.  The same can't be said for Linux 
> kernel patches.

I have. 108528-20 for Solaris 8 broke AFS.

This just gives credence to my thought that for any process W or device X, 
you'll find person Y who never had a problem with it and person Z who says 
it causes cancer.


-james





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