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On Wednesday 05 October 2005 20:01, Olivier Crete wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2005-05-10 at 19:26 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > ok, coaranm aside - have you EVER seen a dev recommending love- or |
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> > nitro-sources? |
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> > |
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> > [...] |
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> > |
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> > If you want the 'latency enhancement' of nitro, go directly to ck - Con |
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> > Kolivas knows what he does. |
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> The official party line from Gentoo/AMD64 is that if you use anything |
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> else than gentoo-sources, you are on your own and your bug reports will |
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> be ignored. vanilla-sources may be tolerated since gregkh&co seem to be |
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> doing a good job on the 2.6.x.y series. |
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> Using nitro or ck or love kernel may very well break your system and the |
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> breakage may not be fixed by simply switching back to gentoo-sources |
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> since it may break anything you have compiled or the content of your |
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> hard disk. If you want to try any of those highly experimental features, |
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> you are on your own. I would personally advise you pick only the |
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> specific features you want and apply them to gentoo sources so you can |
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> track down fast what breaks if you want to help debugging. |
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you are telling that the wrong guy - I always use gentoo - or vanilla-sources, |
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because I remember very well the problems of people using nitro/love sources |
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bach in 04. |
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Oh, and back in 2003/2004 I tried a lot of different kernels - and believe it |
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or not: at the end, the less patched, the better were the kernels. So I |
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stayed with gentoo or vanilla, because the rest was not better or faster, |
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only more instabil. |
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I am pretty much healed from straying around ;) |
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