Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0 and oldconfig

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Albert Hopkins wrote:
>
> On Saturday, July 23 at 01:10 (-0500), Dale said:
>
>    
>> I was hoping since it was a whole different numbering scheme that it
>> was
>> a major change.  That was the reason for my question.  I didn't know
>> if
>> this was major or a normal update or something else.   I was hoping
>> for
>> something like when Seamonkey went from version 1.* to 2.* but this
>> is
>> not the case.  The reason I was hoping for this was because of my
>> kernel
>> panic issue.  I'm still hopeful that something may have been updated
>> that will fix my problem but I'm not as hopeful now since this is
>> nothing great.
>>      
> Yeah, but a kernel panic is *not* a major issue.  They are reported all
> the time.  And it probably doesn't take a *major* change to fix it.
>
> To the contrary, *major* changes typically introduce more bugs.  So you
> probably *don't* want a major change.
>
>        * Major change: re-write or architecture change
>        * Minor change: bug fixes<-- you want this
>
>
>    

But sometimes major changes can fix things and do things completely 
different which can lead to other issues being fixed.  Seamonkey did the 
same when they did their major redo.

Bad thing is, the kernel panics are at it again.  I had a little bit of 
time to download a video or two but here we go again.

Back to the normal reboots I guess.  :-(

Dale

:-)  :-)