Why I won't be using Breezy *gasp*

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:14:58AM +0800, John wrote:
> >Ugly ACPI BIOS.
> That's my impression from reading up on it. Besides, "But it
> works with Windows."

You might have to pass ACPI interpreter some magic options
to tell it to pretend to be Windows NT or something like that
-- there was quite vivid discussion of a probable BIOS beta
testing process at PC vendors a few times on LKML (keywords:
Alan Cox acpi bios battle scars).  Might try to babelfish this:
http://lists.altlinux.ru/pipermail/sisyphus/2005-September/069705.html

ALT Linux kernel does have these patches, but hey we have
*great* kernel maintainer (one of the things to make me
Debian-shy was its kernel maintainer erm... well, lots of 
folks described that as "insanity") and I've not had a generic
cause for a kernel build for years (specific causes being
something like patch experiments more than a year ago, 
and this summer a colleague lowered HZ in 2.6.x to 250 -- 
funny but this was exactly the "compromise number" lkml 
came to a few months later).

> >>3. The first time I logged into KDE, I liked what I saw
> >>(still do), but the apparent lack an email client was a
> >>surprise. I later found kmail is actually installe, just
> >>not in any menu.
> >See fig. 1.
> You're guessing. Someone else gave the correct answer.

Good.

> >>8.  Every time I logout, the panel dies with a SEGV.
> >Might be "see fig. 1".
> I think an install crash would be more catastrophic - I think
> xorg was the most-affected package so it should be okay, or
> nothing works.

It could be unused driver subpackage being trashed, with needed
driver and libraries being already installed and synced to disk.

Wild guess, you knew. :)

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