Am Fr, den 16.04.2004 schrieb Russell Coker um 22:00: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 04:27, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
