Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 | Date | Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:03:03 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> said:
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> I have to say that with a few minor exceptions the introduction of new > features hasn't created long term (more than a few days) of problems. And > we have had that in previous stable versions as well. New features > themselves may not be totally stable, but in most cases they don't break > existing features, or are fixed in bk1 or bk2. What worries me is removing > features deliberately, and I won't beat that dead horse again, I've said > my piece. > > The "few minor exceptions:" > > SCSI command filtering - while I totally support the idea (and always > have), I miss running cdrecord as a normal user. Multisession doesn't work > as a normal user (at least if you follow the man page) because only root > can use -msinfo. There's also some raw mode which got a permission denied, > don't remember as I was trying something not doing production stuff.
It had very nasty security problems. After a short discussion here, it was deemed much more important to have a secure system than a (very minor) convenience. AFAIU, the patch was backported to 2.4 (or should be ASAP).
> APM vs. ACPI - shutdown doesn't reliably power down about half of the > machines I use, and all five laptops have working suspend and non-working > resume. APM seems to be pretty unsupported beyond "use ACPI for that."
Many never machines just don't have APM.
> None of these would prevent using 2.6 if there were some feature not in > 2.4 which gave a reason to switch.
Like 2.6 works fine, 2.4 has no chance on some machines? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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