On Thursday 01 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 01 January 2009 02:29:15 Stroller wrote: > > On 31 Dec 2008, at 23:51, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > Having just been bitten by some of my hardware being abandoned with > > > the latest > > > version of a software package I am left to question the entire > > > philosophy in > > > gentoo of always running bleeding edge. Not touching a system that's > > > working > > > is becoming far more tempting, and I'm curious as to what others > > > here have to > > > say about that. > > > > I think what you should be asking is why upstream have stopped > > supporting your hardware. Hopefully they'll be able to give a good > > reason for doing so. > > He also asked a very generic question, the kind that doesn't really have an > answer. So no-one likely will. > > For all we know, the hardware in question is a floppy drive. Or token ring. > > Michael, what package, what hardware are we talking about? > Your question can only be answered in context. > > > IMO the Gentoo philosophy is not to run "bleeding edge", but just to > > install from upstream, keeping it as "pure" and unchanged as possible. > > Gentoo is also somewhat general-purpose. There comes a point where obscure > hardware is no longer worth the effort of supporting, or no-one is willing > to do it, so that hardware has to be dropped.
Not sure if the OP has been bitten by the 2.6.27 kernel which does not seem <aheam!> compatible with my hardware too. Now, this could well be an one off - I can't recall having significant kernel problems with stable versions for years now. Or, it could be that it was half cooked and rushed to meet the Christmas hols. Time will show. I guess there is bugzilla for posting bugs or even requests, but if as Alan says the hardware in question is that obscure/obsolete, then interest for continuing its dev't will undoubtedly decline with time. Maybe the recent 2.6.27 kernel problems that I have experienced are an early warning that my PIII Coppermine is approaching the end of its useful life ... -- Regards, Mick
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