Word of thanks to the kernel developers

[Richard Kleeman]

Virtually all my serious bug reports in the last 18 months have been 
kernel related. I agree that many people don't enjoy the work and that 
may be the nub of the problem here. But then the really worthwhile 
things in life are always challenging...

I am thinking structurally and practically here. I had a laptop that 
would not work with Dapper until one week from release. This prevented 
me from reporting several very annoying bugs until after the final release.

There have been several stories about Dapper being buggy from quite 
respectable sources since the release (e.g. Carla Schroder of Linux 
Cookbook fame). I feel more attention to the show stopping kernel bugs 
would help prevent bad publicity like this.

I wish I could contribute but being a college professor does not leave 
much free time I'm afraid, besides which I think Canonical should do the 
job here since the task is so mission critical.



James Laver wrote:
> Kernel training takes a long time, and a lot of people don't enjoy it,
> so I'm sure you can appreciate that getting kernel developers isn't
> the easiest of things.
> 
> Of course you could always volunteer if you've got any programming
> experience. We can only hope the kernel bugfix cycle will be
> successful
> 
> Besides, i'd personally rather see improvements on applications :)
> 
> --James Laver
> 
> On 15/06/06, Richard Kleeman <kleeman at cims.nyu.edu> wrote:
>> Two networking problems I was having which prevented both freenx and
>> gnome-cups-tool from working were solved in the latest kernel 2.6.15-25
>> because the sky2 driver was updated to v1.4. This is very much
>> appreciated by the end user.
>>
>> Ubuntu needs more kernel hackers IMHO. Kernel bugs are particularly
>> nasty because usually they are show-stoppers. Too many of them prevents
>> the full testing of other software.
>>
>> /rant
>>
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