Mmm,

It is true I am running a non-Ununtu kernel ...

Perhaps because the Ubuntu Xen kernel, certainly upto Gutsy, was simply
too unstable to be of any use. I'm running ~ 20 Xen instances across 4
servers and spent a LONG TIME trying to make raw Ubuntu work. My
eventual solution was to switch to a RH2.6.21 kernel, ALL of my problems
have gone away and I now experience 100% uptime as opposed to continuous
problems every day.

If you're going to tell me that I can't run Ubuntu and use a recent
alternative kernel when Ubuntu's kernel is a paper weight, then you're
telling me I need to switch to Fedora - which given my investment in
Ubuntu I'd rather not do.

I can't think of any reason why it would not be possible to add a little
flexibility into package upgrades to make them ever so slightly
backwards compatible and give people a little wriggle room when Ubuntu
is less than perfect (never happens obviously, but just in case ... ;-)
)

Another example; they've put something rather nasty into rsync, so it
generates lots of errors when you run the Gutsy version on a 2.6.21
kernel. Apparently the distro version RELIES on a specific feature in
the 2.6.22 kernel ... Arhrhrhrhrhrh! Calling all programmers; don't let
user-level applications fail just because someone adds "0.0.01" to a
kernel version!!

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