Re: Problem with Samsung CDRW/DVD SM-308B
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:21:17AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3513
> Jo"erg constantly complains about bugs in derived versions of
> cdrecord, and old versions of his software, and hasn't released a stable
> version in years and tells people to use alpha quality releases.
This is a valid point, and very frustrating -- especially when the stable
versions also seem to expire after a couple years. (But in his defense,
after this happened, I was able to build a cdrecord alpha on my HP-UX 10.20
box and replace the now-defunct "stable" one. It works. Until this one
expires, anyway.)
(Hmm... y'know what would be handy? A command line switch to show when
cdrecord expires. So I could PLAN for this sort of thing, rather than
getting called by users saying that they can't burn CDs.)
(Also, a better error message than "Alarm call".)
> To
> discourage people from trying a released stable kernel before claiming a
> Linux bug seems pretty hypocritical to me.
There hasn't been a stable Linux kernel release since 2.4.*. Linux 2.6.*
is a development series.
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