>>> What do you think? Shall we wait for 2.6.38 to be available in >>> backports and ship it in 0.7.1? Does it seem robust and tested enough >>> for our needs? > > Go for 2.6.38. There is a few Dell laptops with Nvidia card that does > not work using the nouveau driver that is in the Squeeze kernel.
There's at least one critical bug in 2.6.38 which I can confirm on all devices I tested (x86 and x86_64 arch). IMO it makes 2.6.38 unusable for the time being. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/linux/%2Bbug/760131 The mainboard chipsets and CPU become very hot. On one device I tested it almost fried the WiFi chipset. In my opinion - I can't prove it by hard facts - 2.6.38 also has some serious performance regressions. Web browsing becomes almost impossible on older devices, as soon as more than 3 or 4 tabs are open. Current kernel looks more like work in progress to me than a stable release. See also here: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_natty_power&num=1 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_kernel_regress2&num=1 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_mobile_uffda&num=1 _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://boum.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev
