On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:36:58 +0100, Rainer Hantsch wrote:
Hello, and good day.
I am often installing openSuSE on customer hardware (Laptops, Desktops, Servers). This worked well in the past, but in last time I notice an extreme (not to say scarying) increase of issues with Leap 15.0.
(snip) As the thread grows for various details about the complaints, I'm not going further to discuss it. However, your proposal is actually interesting from the technical POV. Let's see:
1. On the web-site another download in Leap, offering an unofficial/unsupported DVD image should be made available. So the only difference is the kernel, it should be v4.20 from boot-up. Warnings can be added on the web site, explaining that this one is not officially supported, only experimental, for situations where the current one has problems. BUT SOMETHING IS AVAILABLE THAT MIGHT WORK BETTER,
If we take a TW kernel, it'll be also a rolling-update image, but it should certainly doable on OBS. Maybe some module list needs to be updated together, but it can be taken from TW as well. Overall, it's still worth for consideration, IMO.
2. Extend the current DVD ISO to allow to choose between current official kernel and this new 4.20 kernel. (I am no developer, I don't know how to do that).
This should be rather easy, and even doable with the current installer. In the online repo setup, you can add your own repo, and just put OBS Kernel:stable repo there. That's all. Though, adding the upstream kernel would change the system *drastically*, and this is a quite frequent update repo. So, if we really provide such a repo as the standard one and make it accessed via a single click, it should warn / inform the risk to user beforehand. In anyway, this would be a task for YaST people, I suppose. thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org