[Mageia-dev] kernel 3.0 is a big mistake in cauldron

D.Morgan dmorganec at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 20:45:26 CEST 2011


On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
<beranger5ca at yahoo.ca> wrote:
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>> WTF? We do this quite regularly... the rc's have been pushed in cooker
>> and I'm pretty sure cauldron in the past. The fact that this is 3.x.x
>> rather 2.6.38 is pretty much a whim of numbering and nothing
>> specifically relating to anything "significant" or similar.
>>
>> And who cares if -latest is updated. Your old kernel is not removed and
>> TMB gave you forewarning about it.
>>
>> This is really one of the lamest complaints ever!!!
>
> Notwithstanding that this is cauldron, not stable, it is _not_ like an update from
> 2.6.38.8-desktop-2
> to
> 2.6.38.8-desktop-5
>
> This is a _major_ kernel update, even if 3.0.0-rc7 is actually 2.6.40-rc7.
>
> As a matter of fact, while 2.6.38.8 was a _very_ stable kernel, this one is _not_,
>
> The latest _stable_ kernel is 2.6.39.3, not this bloody  2.6.40-rc7, aka 3.0.0-rc7.
>
> And I don't remember of any "forewarning".
>
> Also, even in Cauldron, shouldn't it have stayed for more time in testing?
>
> Finally, when you upgrade a regular package (say, LibreOffice, which was recently updated) to a new version, it is extremely unlikely that you would update it to a Beta/RC one, even in Cauldron. Then why your standards are _lower_ when comes to the kernel -- the most important component of all?!?!?

what is with LO ?


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