From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KMHzG-0006IK-Oi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:45:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BD1BE0377; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD38BE0377 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AC9723B0788 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:45:11 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:45:11 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable? Message-ID: <20080725084511.1ba4e24d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50807241928v7148847w5b3c1fe9b42481@mail.gmail.com> References: <9acccfe50807230952y795535cck52a8872d42b805c6@mail.gmail.com> <200807241053.08795.basti.wiesner@gmx.net> <9acccfe50807240739lc35c6bcj1557875adf8fff4e@mail.gmail.com> <200807241806.30065.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <20080724194212.7eb73706@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <9acccfe50807241928v7148847w5b3c1fe9b42481@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0cvs32 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/_LDTcijqpIOcNP0xAr1sZkO"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 0b6fefb9-6379-4982-b8b0-b70e61ad2fd9 X-Archives-Hash: 6b91a0e322ab6bab6c2a6399dbb3dfd9 --Sig_/_LDTcijqpIOcNP0xAr1sZkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:28:41 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It's an obvious question, but... are they freakin' insane? VMWare is > > one of the few really good pieces of general-market software that > > supports Linux. Why on earth would the linux community cut them off? > > > > Harumph! =20 >=20 > Mind you, I'm not certain who cut who off, No one cut anyone off. The kernel changed, VMware haven't yet released an update, the previous kernel still works and no one is forcing you to use the latest. --=20 Neil Bothwick No maintenance: Impossible to fix. --Sig_/_LDTcijqpIOcNP0xAr1sZkO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiJhIcACgkQum4al0N1GQMxxwCgvQk14gMfYvRmsLGjsYT3pnOT t/UAn0CWl3GHl3NqChtDdyf2TKfHfG4D =cHCO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/_LDTcijqpIOcNP0xAr1sZkO--