Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released [LWN.net]

Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released

Posted Jul 5, 2008 9:18 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released by madscientist
Parent article: Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released

This doesn't always work though...  I've had a different freeze bug ("IRQ nn, nobody cared" -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2....) on Feisty, Gutsy
and Hardy kernels - the only cure is to run with "irqpoll". 

Many non-techies would not be able to diagnose what was happening here, so I think this sort
of kernel bug will slow Linux and Ubuntu adoption on the desktop.  Maybe the Ubuntu kernel
team is under resourced, but I get the feeling that stability bugs aren't always the high
priority they should be.

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Posted Jul 10, 2008 13:38 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]

<em>"Maybe the Ubuntu kernel team is under resourced"</em>

Certainly compared to a company like RedHat which has a fair number of high profile kernel
hackers. I'm not sure how big the core distro team is but I get the sense a lot gets done on a
shoestring, building as they are able to do on the groundwork done by Debian. I think RedHat
also test their stuff on a wider range of hardware.