Am Fr, den 16.04.2004 schrieb Russell Coker um 22:00:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 04:27, Thorsten Leemhuis fedora@leemhuis.info wrote:
The plan is for 2-3 releases a year, and it seems that so far we are doing reasonably well in meeting that plan. Is using a 4-6 month old version of ALSA really that bad?
IMHO: Libs, Utils: Not really. Driver: Yes.
As long as Hardware-Vendors don't provide Linux-Drivers that are installable in an *easy* way *we* need to provide device-driver updates during lifetime of the current Fedora Core version to support newly released hardware. Sound-Cards are a nice example, there are many other.
Installing a kernel from rawhide is quite easy and generally there should not be any problems with it.
Normally yes. But I's not that easy that my parents could do it and not 99% risk free (nothing ist 100% risk free ;-) ). An it's way harder and riskier then installing a windows device driver. This is the level I want to reach (okay, with I dream of).
I think you can safely assume that newer kernels
Please don't read my post as I wanted a 2.4.26 Kernel for FC1 now. I only want easy installable device drivers. If they are in the kernel or somewhere else (printer/scanner driver) is not important for an ordinary user.
will be available reasonably often if you don't restrict yourself to main Fedora releases.
Also if you know what you are doing
than you can often fix it yourself ;-) Fedora target is not exactly the end-user, but I think we have enough users that don't know how to fix such things. Look at fedora mailing lists for examples ;-)
True. However testing a new kernel for release takes a significant amount of effort.
Of course.
Just doing a quick compile and throwing it to the users isn't going to make many people happy!
+1
Providing the very latest kernel at all times conflicts with the goal of providing software that is tested and known to be reasonably reliable.
Not my point and not my wish. I only want the drivers for the newly released Hardware so we don't let users in the stand in the unsupported rain for ~5-7 month (feature freeze until next release).
Yes, in most times new drivers come with new kernels, but Alsa is a neat example where something other is possible.
CU thl