Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (508 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 05:01:00AM +0100, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:37:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 08:07:02PM +0530, phanisvara das wrote:
> > > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:04:30 +0530, Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx> 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I agree on that. The issue is that meanwhile X11:XOrg depends on a recent
> > > > kernel version, i.e. 2.6.36 or better 2.6.37rc5. At least for KMS
> > > > drivers, which are the majority meanwhile (intel, radeon,
> > > > nouveau).Not sure whether there are plans for recent kernel
> > > > versions intumbleweed.
> > >
> > > for the last several months i've been using kernels from
> > > Kernel:/HEAD and found them extremely stable. in spite of the often
> > > heard argument that they're unstable & under rapid development, i
> > > refuse to go back to the OSS kernel, since, specially combined with
> > > X11:XOrg, it's a significant performance improvement -- for what i'm
> > > doing. there may be other applications that have problems with the
> > > latest kernels and/or X11, of course.
> > >
> > > i'm not sure if i'm getting the idea for/behind tumbleweed, but i
> > > imagine that Kernel:/HEAD & X11:XOrg (smapshot) would be appreciated
> > > by many who want to leave the security of the stable repo behind for
> > > better performance / features.
> >
> > I'm using Kernel:stable instead, as that is a bit more "stable" than
> > Kernel:HEAD at the moment.
> >
> > Any pointers to a "stable" xorg repo I should be using to link from?
>
> I guess that would be X11:XOrg, but as long as Xvnc is still missing that's
> not an option I'm afraid. I'll let you know once I have something which I
> consider useful. Probably not before January 2011.

Ok, feel free to do a submitreq to the openSUSE:Tumbleweed project when
you think it is ready.

thanks,

greg k-h
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