Mark Duckworth wrote:
IIRC That was PeP. There were several people who voted it down because really how often is an installed system going to change architecture.
Changing the architecture is almost a nonsense, but testing a newer beta kernel is very common. Ideally, the daily built kernel archive should be droppable somewhere then runnable from a menu item.
In the same spirit, on Linux when upgrading the kernel, it is very common to keep the older one as backup if something goes wrong on the newer one. Then GRUB (the boot menu) can easily be used to select one kernel or another.
-- Vincent Rivière