Steve Goodey wrote:
On Friday 13 January 2006 19:49, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
In ether case, it is looking more and more like it is time to
say goodbye to Mandriva, and find another distribution to play
with. At this point, I will not bother to re-subscribe if I do
get unsubscribed! So if you don't see any more posts from me,
you will know what happened.
Mikkel
One of the reasons I'm moving onto another distro is that my DVB card required
kernel 2.6.14, which Mandriva seemed reluctant to go to.
Thanks for your help in the past.
IMO, Mikkel has been invaluable on this an other lists. Probly
will be where ever he lands. OTOH....
There's a 2.6.14 multimedia, an a 2.6.15.0 linus (both vanilla
source, same you'd get directly from kernel.org) on 2006.1 devel
(cooker) mirrors. They might fix your issues, but they're unpatched
to work with many Mandriva specific features (or vice versa). So
many things like auto mounting won't work. An it's not that
Mandriva is reluctant to update their seriously deprecated an
outdated 2.6.12 kernels, they seemed to have downsized development
staff to the point they're not capable of rebuilding most all of the
distro to be compatible with current kernels.
IMO, despite the mailing list debacles, which are only really a
symptom ("let them eat cake?"), Mandriva is a sinking ship unless
they soon get current. If 2007 is released with old, obsolete,
performance, hardware support, an capability, it's dead. At the time
it appears (cooker ML) that is just what is fixin to happen. I doubt
they can backport kernel improvements, three or more generations
back to their 2.6.12 offerings.
Other distros, FC5test2 (Fedora) is due Monday, Jan 16th, both
from mirrors and by torrent. Four CD's.
http://fedora.redhat.com/About/schedule/
An Fedora has had current kernels an the rest of the distro to
go with them all along. Even FC4 has current 2.6.14 an 2.6.15+
kernels. An IME, at least the fedora-test an fedora-devel ML's are
not only informative, but interesting. You'd be surprised by the
heavy hitters in the Linux world that are members an contributors.
An they work more than 35 hour/weeks, an don't take off on holiday's
anywhere as near as often as the shorthanded French do at Mandriva.
Maybe that's why Fedora is so far advanced ? Oh, an their ML's
seem to work jus' fine ;)
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo
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