-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: | On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 13:26 -0500, David Boles wrote: |> I have to ask you Nigel. Why would you want to keep more that two |> kernels when you have the one that is currently running and the |> previous one that was running when the current one was installed? | | You mightn't notice that a kernel has *some* problems for a while, if | you don't use all the features all the time. Later on, when you have | some problem, it can be handy to have more than one alternative to test | with. | | Occasionally there'll be a very quick release of a kernel update shortly | after another kernel update. That could end up deleting the only good | kernel. I have never had, touch wood, a kernel problem like that. I have no unusual hardware. All of it is supported natively by Linux. I don't need special drivers, non OSS software, or third party anything. Fedora, and all of the other distributions that I have tried, installs with no problems and just works on first reboot. I don't own a laptop. I don't want to own a laptop. But if I did I would buy one with natively supported hardware such as my desktop. One that would not require that I search for non OSS drivers and such. My everyday desktop computer is triple boot. It has Win XP PRO, Fedora 8 and Fedora Rawhide. New kernels show up for Fedora 8 from time to time. New kernels show up for Rawhide all of the time. The only time I have ever had a problem with one of them, in Rawhide, is when they try something new to try to support some off-the-wall hardware and it fails. Or they make a minor adjustment that fails. And that is normally corrected the next day. Two at the most. And since I know how to quickly and easily fix a problem such as this, should one arise, I feel that the default of two kernels if enough for me. That is why I asked. - -- ~ David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkeA6hsACgkQAO0wNI1X4QEq3QCghDPz7gqKmWSdc2GqCoSLkvpL 5osAoJz1yAG9Qc/n+upo56gA6an3OQo2 =Ze46 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
