long term support release

[Les Mikesell]

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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    Les Mikesell
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