Timothy Murphy wrote:
On Monday 16 January 2006 16:12, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
but in my view the default should be to keep the current, working kernel
as the default (as I believe it used to be).
This makes for a very poor default for systems managed by novice fedora
users. Novice users may not realize that they need to reconfigure their
grub to take advantage of a security update kernel. Its very important that
the default configuration is one that makes booting into security
kernel updates as automatic as possible. For people with enough
experience using Fedora to competently manage multiple remote systems,
the configuration file /etc/sysconfig/kernel can be used to disable
this default.
I still think it is a bad idea to install the new kernel automatically.
The worst thing that can happen for a newbie
is that he turns on his laptop and it doesn't work
New kernels should never result in major regressions. We need to work on
that instead of providing workarounds. What users can do is help
checking updates-testing repository and making sure that it works. More
feedback would definitely help increase the robustness of updates.
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