I still love and congrats tmb too, for his hardwork! Sandro Cazzaniga -----Original Message----- From: "D.Morgan" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:07:26 To: Mageia development mailing-list<[email protected]> Reply-To: Mageia development mailing-list <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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
