Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:33:45 -0700 | From | "James Ausmus" <> | Subject | Re: libata, Sound on same IRQ : flaky sound |
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Robert M. Stockmann <stock@stokkie.net> wrote: <snip> > installing a recent kernel is not that easy, as the required > upgrade of udev will break the initscripts and a lot of installed > services and even the functionality of the KDE desktop. Installing > a recent distro is not desirable as they resemble me only > of a Open Source Vista distro, where it takes months to clean > up the unwanted garbage and bloat inside. Its preposterous that > a upgrade to a recent kernel mandates the installation of a recent > distro. I run Mandrake 10.1 with kernel 2.6.15 and some applications > upgraded like firefox, mplayer and k3b etc. >
Not to divert this into a distro discussion, but you should look into Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org) - it offers the kind of customization and flexibility (as well as pick and choose update capabilities) that it sounds like you are interested in.
-James
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