On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote: >Antonio Olivares wrote: >> --- On Mon, 2/16/09, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> From: Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@xxxxxxxxx> >>> Subject: Does Fedora11-alpha contain Linux-2.6.29rc? >>> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." >>> <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 9:25 AM >>> Hi, >>> >>> Does Fedora11-Alpha use RC versions of 2.6.29, or still >>> stick to >>> 2.6.28 until 2.6.29 is released? >> >> Yes, pretty much. We are running 2.6.29rcX kernels :) >> >>> The reason I ask is that the Intel driver is horribly >>> broken with >>> 2.6.28's GEM stuff, and I hope things got better until >>> now. >> >> We hope many things get better as well :) >> Enjoying the ride with rawhide! > >Not so much, I did an alpha install and it worked really well. A few days > later I did an update (with "yum upgrade") and it hung during the upgrade > never to boot again in any way. No, I mean any way, no POST, no way into > BIOS, dead. > >I pulled the disk and cleared the MBR and partition table, still wouldn't > even POST, cleared the NV memory, reflashed the BIOS, dropped back to FC10. > >No complaint, I know it's alpha, but that was the most hosed system I have > ever seen. At least that I was able to recover w/o replacing hardware. > Shuttle with Celeron and Sis chipset, and *NO* I don't want to continue > testing. ;-) That is kubuntu Jaunty alpha4 I installed on the other drive. And it pulled in about 300 updates and I installed another 110 packages last night when I was booted to it, and seemed to be pretty stable to me. KDE4 sure is different, I definitely don't like the new menu lashup at all. But if you look long enough, most of it is there. Its also not as fast subjectively. >-- >Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from >the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Did I do an INCORRECT THING?? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
