request for review of intrepid beta release announcement
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at canonical.com
Thu Oct 2 15:44:33 UTC 2008
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 08:10:27AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I've committed a number of updates to the announcement draft, including a
> 'Known Bugs' section; there are a couple of issues that the developers felt
> are significant enough that they should be highlighted here, not just in the
> technical overview page linked to from the mail. Feedback welcome
> (particularly on the first entry, which was taken verbatim from the
> TechnicalOverview and may need to be made more general-audience than I've
> managed?)
>
> Known Bugs
> ----------
>
> There are a few key issues that users will want to take note of before
> upgrading to this beta.
>
> * A problem that could result in corruption of the firmware on Intel GigE
> ethernet hardware has led to the disabling of the e1000e driver in the
> Linux kernel included in Ubuntu 8.10 Beta. Ethernet devices that use this
> driver cannot be used with Ubuntu 8.10 Beta; support for this hardware
> will be re-enabled in daily builds immediately after Beta and this issue
> will be resolved for the Ubuntu 8.10 final release.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263555
"The e1000e device driver (which provides support for XXX) is currently
disabled due to a serious bug. A fix for this bug has already been prepared
and will be released shortly as an update to all users of the beta release.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263555"
> * No real-time kernel variant is available for the Linux 2.6.27 kernel
> included with Ubuntu 8.10 Beta. Users of Ubuntu``Studio 8.04 who need
> real-time kernel support are advised not to upgrade to Ubuntu``Studio
> 8.10.
add "...until Ubuntu Studio 8.10 beta is announced" (assuming that will be fixed).
--
- mdz
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