Hi,
On 03/12/2013 01:02 PM, Jiří Eischmann wrote:
Allan Day píše v Út 12. 03. 2013 v 11:15 +0000:
Hi all,
On the question of how kernel versions should be accessed, I am very
much in favour of the position that Chris Murphy expressed earlier:
choosing a kernel version is opaque to most users and requires fairly
advanced technical knowledge to understand.
I agree, but unfortunately, it's not the case of Fedora. By having a
rolling release policy for the kernel, we're forcing users to deal with
kernel versions.
I follow user forums quite a lot and I read it every day: I updated and
my wireless card stopped working, my computer doesn't wake up from
suspend, the system is now much slower. New kernels bring a lot of
regressions and we don't have enough test coverage to avoid them. The
general solution to those problems is to go back to the last working
kernel version. But by making it less obvious we make these frequent
problems more difficult to solve.
Keep in mind that the not show the menu by default plan depends on
the bootspec changes, and that will include a gui tool which will
allow users to select things like show the menu (and then it won't have
a timeout so be easier to get to), or even to directly select the
kernel to boot next time.
I do agree that having such a tool in place is a requirement for
disabling the menu, we must get the ordering right, iow first the
bootspec tool, then disable the menu by default. This could be as
easy as a dialog / ncurses tool for starts, but we must have a tool
to do this *first*.
Regards,
Hans
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