2010/11/13 rosea.grammostola <[email protected]>: > On 11/13/2010 12:45 PM, gusano wrote: >> >> On 11/13/10 12:11, rosea.grammostola wrote: >>> >>> On 11/13/2010 12:05 PM, gusano wrote: >>>> >>>> On 11/13/10 11:25, rosea.grammostola wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm waiting for the 10.04 based release, but will the next release be >>>>> based on 10.04 or 10.10? I think 10.04 is a much better choice because >>>>> a) it has Long Time Support, so it's very stable, b) it has a RT >>>>> kernel, >>>>> c) 1010 offers not much more in terms of proaudio. >>>> >>>> I'd vote for 10.10 seeing the nasty bugs with nvidia cards and default >>>> 10.04 :/ (i.e. blank screen, black screen, etc on boot) >>>> >>>> about RT-kernel, I thought this was becoming obsolete (ie have rt >>>> performance on non-rt-kernel) ? I might be wrong though =) >>> >>> Yes you can use a generic kernel. In some situations a RT kernel can >>> improve your performance quite a bit. >>> >>> I thought they where able to use Nvidia also with the RT kernels. See >>> also package here for example: >>> https://launchpad.net/~abogani/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=lucid >> >> I was referring to the extremely boring issues I had while testing 10.04 >> when it was released.. I couldn't even log in (no display) on 2 different >> machines.. (ati & nvidia) that meant fixing graphic card drivers on the >> first boot, not very user friendly IMO for a LTS release... >> but again, I'm def. not a guru ! > > Testing a release just after its release is always a risk. You better wait > till the 'point one' version is out or wait some weeks / months. 10.04.1 is > out already, so it is expected to be more stable and to have fixed some > issues, probably the ones you had to...
10.10 is the plan. The improved hardware support in 10.10 over 10.4 is certainly one factor (important for a live boot distro). We're thinking about kernels... it's on its way... Dan --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
