On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Tomasz Mateja wrote: > Elan Ruusamäe pisze: > > On Wednesday 09 April 2008 21:25, Tomasz Mateja wrote: > >>> and instead of living out your feelings, report bugs what is wrong with > >>> 2.6.22 kernel (in lists or http://bugs.pld-linux.org/). 2.6.16 is at > >>> least three years old kernel. upstream is near 2.6.25 already. and > >>> th/ti do have 2.6.22 kernel, do you shout there too? > >> > >> So what? > >> Why not upgrade glibc in ac to 2.7? and XFree to xorg - they are also > >> very old. This is STABLE so minor updates or security updates are > >> welcome. bugs.pld-... is not the place for this request. > > > > glibc = would break 2.4 kernel compatability (afaik already glibc 2.4 > > required 2.6.0 kernel), that has been accidentally already broken several > > times. intentionally broking it would be evil. > > > > xorg 7.0 = too much to rebuild with so less gain, and so far there's no > > binary incompatibility that i've encountered using X11 (aka xorg 6.9). > > > > and kernel update is needed to let ac live a little longer. as there's > > need to support newer hardware. it was considered dead already time it > > was released. and some major changes like updating glibc or gcc would > > mean changing the distro, i.e dropping some architectures and 2.4 kernel > > compatability. > > What are the super-hiper features with new release of kernel??
Hardware support. It already happened once or twice to me, when I had to use kernel newer than 2.6.16 as my NIC wasn't supported - later I discoverd r8168.spec which would help me as well, but you see the point. As Elan said, 2.6.16.x stays (as 2.4.x does), but 2.6.22 (or newer) are there to > Remeber - no xorg - no compiz - no fun - kernel upgrade wont help > Old glibc - new kernel - compatibility emulated - what new features? > upgrade kernel for desktops in AC - useless As above - it's all about new features, like new hardware, powertop, vmsplice exploit support... I do not need powertop on my server, but would like to play a bit with it on my laptop. And no, I do not want (-ENOTIME) to migrate to Ti or Th. > upgrade kernel for servers - more useless not necessary true. -- http://www.agmk.net/ - hosting, strony www, opieka informatyczna _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
