Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:30, Dave Jones wrote:

>  > >>And the FC3 kernel... verry pitty that is stucks on 2.6.12. Whats the
>  > >>problem to pump it to latest kernel? depencies? put them into the repo too
>  > >>right hehe
>  > >
>  > 
>  > I've got kernel.org 2.6.15.1 running fine on a couple of FC3 boxes. No 
>  > problems the I've detected, but there's nothing exotic about the 
>  > configuration, just a couple of vanilla Dell boxes.
> 
> I get this a lot.  Building a kernel for your own box, and building
> one that has to work on as much hardware as possible is a completely
> different problem.  Despite my best efforts, there are *still* always
> regressions when I push updates, but I do what I can to reduce that,
> by not rebasing if I know it's going to break a large subset of users.
> 
> To use just one example, 2.6.15 needs a new udev, or synaptics touchpads
> stop working.  Even though the 2.6.15 update in updates-testing works
> just fine for a majority of users, we can't ship that until all the
> pieces are in place.

If you are running firewire drives, you should be happy that
the FC3 kernel hasn't been updated.  The 2.6.14 kernels for
FC4 and the 2.6.15 in testing won't recognize drives/partitions
although the raw ieee1394 layer seems to work.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com