On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:58, kanenas wrote:
Thanks again Matt, your answer is the one I was woried the most I would get(: i guess there is way too much pressure on the hard working folx at suse to "increase" ver. number rather than really build on something...
opensuse-kde is probably not the right place to ask this question ;-) Kernel Head is... the development/factory build. It's not listed in the "supported" repos for 11.1 because... you shouldn't be adding Factory repos unless you are prepared to deal with the potential problems of installing things that are development versions... Kernwl 2.6.36 for example has been causing issues for some people with things like VirtualBox, and nVidia drivers (works for some, fails for others). No Linux distribution (except maybe Gentoo since its whole concept of "rolling release" is different than most of the distributions) provides official supported kernels beyond the one that was contemporary to the release itself... only security patches and fixes to the kernel that it was released with. This is nothing new. You have a choice.. - you can keep using an old release of openSUSE (or any other Linux distro), and you will get official updates for that release for the support period (18 months for openSUSE). Those updates, specific to that release, will be for the application versions that came with that release... for example, OpenOffice.org 3.0. If you keep the supported repositories, you will only get updates to OpenOffice.org 3.0... you will not get 3.2.1 or the upcoming 3.3. The same applies to the kernel... you keep the official repos for that release and you get only kernel 2.6.27 and its security backports/patches if any. - You can add extra repositories that are not part of the supported release... for example, the Kernel Head repository, the Mozilla repository, the OOo repository... and get updated versions of the apps/kernel that are not part of that specific openSUSE release. - You can upgrade to a newer version of openSUSE. On the kernel question... if things are working well for you on 2.6.27, then there is little harm (generally speaking) in continuing to use it. The newer kernels of course have better support for things like WiFi, security holes patched that may not be backported, etc. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org