[Mageia-dev] kernel 3.0 is a big mistake in cauldron

Sat Jul 16 13:07:26 CEST 2011

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
+<beranger5ca at yahoo.ca> wrote:
+> tmb, I hate you.
+
+really clever and polite ...
+
+
+> making kernel-desktop-latest to point to kernel-desktop-3.0.0-0.rc7.2.1.mga2
+> instead of kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.38.8-5.mga2 was a big mistake.
+
+your call, should have been "i think ...." would have been better
+
+
+> there should have been something like kernel-desktop-latest3 for a while, to
+> let people test that 3.0 thing (rc, right? I know this is cauldron, but I'd
+> still prefer a kernel that works) while still having a 2.6 kernel.
+
+you still can use the kernel 2.6 which is installed on your machine,
+installing a newer kernel doesn't uninstall the previous one.
+
+
+> this 3.0 kernel is a piece of crap. my acer laptop behaves hectically (now I
+> have a mouse, now it's frozen, now the system claims it will reboot, now I
+> have to press the power button for 5 seconds to shutdown it), bcm4311
+> doesn't work even with the correct firmware in /lib/firmware/b43, a
+> fully-fledged pita.
+> reverting to 2.6.38.8-5 brought back the joy (and the wireless internet).
+> but I suppose there won't be any update to the 2.6.38.8 kernel, right? even
+> for an unstable thing like cauldron this is rather wrong, because 3.0.0 is
+> not a released kernel as of yet. and a working kernel is a precondition to a
+> working distro.
+>
+> forcing an rc-something as the current kernel is... unbenevolent
+> dictatorship.
+
+your message is not that democratic too
+
+
+> yeah, I know, fedora rawhide and kubuntu 11.10 also have this 3.0.0-rc7-crap
+> sort of thing. so you can't have the latest packages (including the latest
+> kde) w/o having a broken kernel. sigh.
+> but my message stands. tmb, I hate you for pushing this kernel as a forced
+> update via kernel-desktop-latest.
+
+for my part i still love tmb a lot for his awesome work
+