From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M65hj-0002G4-4I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 16:28:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 972C0E03C5; Mon, 18 May 2009 16:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay1j.uniserve.ca [216.210.109.128]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8B4E03C5 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 16:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-116.61.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.61.116] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M65hf-0002PH-HN for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 09:28:40 -0700 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 18 May 2009 12:28:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 12:28:38 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel Message-ID: <20090518162838.GE4740@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <4A09312E.9010007@gmail.com> <4A10314D.8000406@gmail.com> <20090517161814.GB4724@ca.inter.net> <20090517183249.7db361f5@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <20090518112900.GB4740@ca.inter.net> <20090518125748.224c7d1f@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <20090518140651.GD4740@ca.inter.net> <4A11881F.7010404@gmail.com> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A11881F.7010404@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Sender-Info: purslow@ca.inter.net X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.1 1 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.1 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS X-Archives-Salt: db4e4c64-8251-4f35-ab11-7bf266bb33b6 X-Archives-Hash: ad9c1dd79e1ef700d9380c7783dc7f4d 090518 bn wrote: > Philip Webb ha scritto: >> Hopefully, the OP has got some useful hints out of all this ... > Yes. I'm kinda considering switching to Ubuntu. > I love Gentoo, it's almost 4 years I'm using it, but I need this laptop > to *work*, and I cannot afford to be consistently bitten by such unknowns. > My only concern is that Ubuntu won't be better in the long end > (even if I used it at work for years and I always felt comfortable with it), > because of the upgrade/reinstall cycles. Well, you can get bitten by such things with any distro -- perhaps Slackware has the best reputation for utter reliability -- , but with Gentoo you do have the ability to fix anything yourself, even if it does need a bit of time to get advice & act on it; you can also make notes to ensure you don't get bitten a 2nd time. With binary distros, you are stuck with whatever their makers give you. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca