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Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released

Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released

Posted Jul 5, 2008 18:27 UTC (Sat) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
In reply to: Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released by callegar
Parent article: Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released

Right, the word "understood" was made up by me, from the "documented".
I believe there are hang reports on every kernel, but possibly these hardy ones are now more
common than with some of the earlier Ubuntu kernels (2.6.22, 2.6.20, 2.6.17, 2.6.15...). I'm
not sure if the release notes could have something more than disclaimer-like "it may be that
not all hardware combinations continue to work flawlessly in 8.04", and the same is true with
every release.

I agree to disagree with the 2.6.25 stableness vs. shot in the dark, and agree to agree with
the fact that Ubuntu kernel team could use more resources. I've heard before there are no
resources to support more kernels at the same time, which is why .25 cannot be offered in
addition to .24. In the gutsy times people would have wanted the kernel team to offer
differently compiled kernel flavors because ATI's binary drivers didn't resume from suspend
with newer kernels with the new allocator.

Thanks for elaborating the issue and answering my questions. I do think the issue is real, any
regression is, and it's just details that I'm checking and also wondering how realistic any
one solution is (if no clear patch can be found). It's not just a problem of Ubuntu 8.04, it's
a problem with the generic problem of regressions that always happen.


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