On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 04:33:44PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > Don't. > I mean it. > I saw many Fedora/Debian/Slackware/<insert name here> users who tried a > live update and ended up with dead OS on their hands. > Especially if you can't really fix the machine is something goes bad.
Don't is a good way to put it. Another problem is the "it used to work, but doesn't" syndrome that happens often with Linux based software. For example, I have a "Fly Video" TV card in a computer. I don't use it often to watch TV, it's set up in my basement. So I set up a shell script to control the YES box connected to it and used VLC to stream the video to another PC if I wanted to watch it when I was not downstairs. Under FC4 it worked perfectly. Under FC5, there is no sound. It turns out that VLC uses the old sound system, while the latest kernel does not support it properly. When FC5 first came out, there was an intermediate option in the kernel to provide the support VLC needs, but it is now deleted. In any case the the stock kernels don't include it. The VLC people don't seem to care, someone complained on the development list and was told to change their kernel. It just shows me that there are probably only two people in the world that care, and it's not a critical mass. Ironicly mencoder works fine, so I can record video, but AFIK, it won't stream. :-( Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
