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

[Sandro Cazzaniga]

I still love and congrats tmb too, for his hardwork!
Sandro Cazzaniga

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From: "D.Morgan" <dmorganec at gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:07:26 
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Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] kernel 3.0 is a big mistake in cauldron

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
<beranger5ca at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> tmb, I hate you.

really clever and polite ...


> making kernel-desktop-latest to point to kernel-desktop-3.0.0-0.rc7.2.1.mga2
> instead of kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.38.8-5.mga2 was a big mistake.

your call, should have been "i think ...." would have been better


> there should have been something like kernel-desktop-latest3 for a while, to
> let people test that 3.0 thing (rc, right? I know this is cauldron, but I'd
> still prefer a kernel that works) while still having a 2.6 kernel.

you still can use the kernel 2.6 which is installed on your machine,
installing a newer kernel doesn't uninstall the previous one.


> this 3.0 kernel is a piece of crap. my acer laptop behaves hectically (now I
> have a mouse, now it's frozen, now the system claims it will reboot, now I
> have to press the power button for 5 seconds to shutdown it), bcm4311
> doesn't work even with the correct firmware in /lib/firmware/b43, a
> fully-fledged pita.
> reverting to 2.6.38.8-5 brought back the joy (and the wireless internet).
> but I suppose there won't be any update to the 2.6.38.8 kernel, right? even
> for an unstable thing like cauldron this is rather wrong, because 3.0.0 is
> not a released kernel as of yet. and a working kernel is a precondition to a
> working distro.
>
> forcing an rc-something as the current kernel is... unbenevolent
> dictatorship.

your message is not that democratic too


> yeah, I know, fedora rawhide and kubuntu 11.10 also have this 3.0.0-rc7-crap
> sort of thing. so you can't have the latest packages (including the latest
> kde) w/o having a broken kernel. sigh.
> but my message stands. tmb, I hate you for pushing this kernel as a forced
> update via kernel-desktop-latest.

for my part i still love tmb a lot for his awesome work