Ubuntu Intrepid is flawed

[Derek Broughton]

R Kimber wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:26:51 -0400
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> That really is _nothing_ to do with Intrepid.  Sound is (almost)
>> entirely a kernel function.  It's complete magic, and it's easy to
>> break it.  Just go back to a working kernel.
> 
> Yes, but you can't divorce the distribution and the kernel quite so
> easily. 

I can.

> Putting together a version of the distribution, surely,
> involves a choice of kernel and applications, and users might be
> forgiven for feeling that they should work together.

I've been booting from multiple kernel versions on every distro from 
Corel Linux 1.0 through Debian 2.x, 3.0 and every version of Ubuntu, and 
I have yet to find a version that didn't run just fine on an earlier 
kernel, and quite a few of them were running just fine on kernels later 
than the official distro version.  

There really is no direct connection.  Sometimes your desktop may only 
support some specific hardware with the latest kernel  - but in this case 
that can't be an issue, as his hardware was working fine in Hardy.
-- 
derek