[Opinion] [Bug 15324] Random hard freezes with ATAPI drive on an SATA controller

[Sandis Neilands]

Hi!

There was an issue with pmount (it was impossible to access floppy drives
from gnome) which was solved by putting pmount from dapper into backports. I
don't know if it's possible to do the same with kernel though.

However this is major flaw in the official update policy. From the user's
perspective if the key hardware is not working even after installing
official updates, the distro is broken and it's time to switch - again. Of
course, home users and hobbyist could use dapper, but what about
enterprises, schools and other organizations, where stability AND working
hardware is crucial? As for testing and new bugs - I'm 100% sure that people
will give you more feedback using updated breezy, rather than using fedora
core, suse, mandrake or debian.

IMO hardware-not-working bugs should be treated as important as security
bugs.

P.s. I'm not a developer too.
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Sandis
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