https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=258433#c12
--- Comment #12 from Kern Sibbald 2007-07-05 03:46:02 MST ---
I previously stated that the problem was resolved with
2.6.21-rc5-git13-2-default, which is apparently only partially true for two
reasons:
1. That kernel does not correctly detect USB devices, which means that one
cannot download photos from a camera via USB without booting back to an older
kernel.
2. The debugger did work in *some* situations. However, there is still a major
problem with that kernel that prevents proper debugging. I confirmed this by
setting up debugging on a FC4 computer where it worked perfectly, while on the
git kernel, the debugger crashes.
While it is clear that this is Open Source, and since I am not paying for it,
you (Novell) are not obligated to fix it, I would say that Petr's comments are
extremely kind. My comment is:
"Novell screws Open Source programmers running OpenSuSE by either being
incapable or unwilling to fix a major bug in their released version of the
kernel in a reasonable timeframe. Your distro is no longer suitable for
developers."
It is a real pity because you have the best installer around and a very nice
implementation of KDE, but this is a killer. I would have expected more from a
company that pretends to be a major player in the Linux market.
Since this is the second major kernel show stopper I have experienced in the
year since I switched from Fedora to SuSE, I give up and am switching distros
again. For reference, during the 6 years I was using RedHat then later Fedora,
I never once had any problem with the kernel.
PS: I had forgotten how terribly slow Yast2 is on doing updates compared to
yumex and synaptic until I started seriously looking at switching distros. It
is still 4 to 10 times slower than the other major distributions. I recommend
that you conviscate the current machine of the developer responsible for the
Yast2 software module, replace it by a 400MHz 256M RAM machine,(which I
unfortunately recently tried to update) and tell him that he cannot have his
normal machine back until he gets the time needed to adding a repository and
loading a single new package down to 10 minutes maximum. Even at that it would
be slower than yum.
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