Re: long term support release

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell gmail com>]

Jesse Keating wrote:

> > Are you saying these desktops can't ever run on *bsd/solaris, etc. 
> > kernels and libc's because they need features unique to this month's
> > linux?
> >
> > > Once upon a time (... in a galaxy far, far away) I used to build
> > > updated GNOME versions for older Red Hat Linux releases.  It wasn't
> > > easy, but it was pretty constrained to a small set of packages.
> > > These days, I'd end up needing new hal which brings in ConsoleKit
> > > which ...[1]
>
> They may needa  ConsoleKit like thing doing the permission changes to
> the devices as necessary...

I think that concept is rather bizarre anyway since I think of 
permissions as being tied to who you are, not where you are. But I tend 
to not use the physical console much either, doing most work via 
freenx/NX with the session resumed at an assortment of locations and 
client platforms.

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