Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)

[Karl Larsen]

Erich Zigler wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:24:14 -0600 Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>     I recall a kernel before a udev update on F7 that stopped all the 
>> USB plugin memory to stop working. Then the udev update arrived and
>> all worked again. Now I'm worried that a new kernel will cause my
>> nVIDIA fix to fail. Or a udev update.
>>     This didn't cause the computer to not boot, but it does make you 
>> gun-shy.
>>     
>
> Regarding your NVIDIA issue usually the people over at Livna [1] are
> quite fast about pushing out a new RPM with a new kernel. When you do a
> yum update and notice a new kernel make sure that a new kmod-nvidia is
> in there too.
>
> If you want to run a Linux distribution that has very little chance of
> breaking with updates please take a look at Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> Desktop or CentOS.
>
> 1: I am sure other RPM repositories are just as quick. I do not have
> any experience with them though.
>
>   
    I know where I am and will be careful. A kernel update is not a real 
problem because you can keep using this old one. But some others can be 
a problem. I will not change this computer to another operating system, 
and I like it the way it is right now.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.