Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> writes:
People are having/have been having problems with a new version of oS and they are asked to submit "bugzillas" (did someone overlook the naming of "bugzillas" 'bugmoids'?) but they are have not been aware that the kernel used in oS has a "problem" and may be the cause of the hassle about which people are furiously writing "bugzillas".
The kernel bug is not in the 11.1 release, but in Factory: http://en.opensuse.org/Factory#What_is_the_Factory_Distribution.3F People who run factory knows that it is unstable and expect bugs.
Who would have thought that the kernel in oS is designed for a server (but then oS *is* the test bed for the commercial version, right? - stupidos!) and can be made to perform better if compiled with the options described in this thread?
The default kernel is adequate for most desktop use. It is just not a low latency kernel for heavy multimedia work. This is why I suggest OpenSUSE put out different kernels for different purposes- a server kernel, a balanced kernel for masses and a low lantency kernel for heavy multimedia. Charles -- Linux is obsolete (Andrew Tanenbaum)