Re: How to block kernel updates
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 13:54 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 07:48 -0500, Tom H wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 10:02 +0000, Joe wrote:
> > >>
> > >> The risk is about having that happen without noticing. Generally, I
> > >> keep an eye on what sid is updating, but even this long after a
> > >> release, it's still tens of megabytes a day. I don't check all of them
> > >
> > > I always read all package names before updating, for each distro I use.
> > > For Arch in addition I should read the news on the homepage, but often I
> > > don't do it.
> > >
> > > Newbies are unable to evaluate what package updates could be very risky,
> > > so for Debian they should stay with stable and for Arch they always
> > > should read the news first.
> > >
> > > And they never ever should update Ubuntu :D.
> >
> > My parents upgrade their Ubuntu laptops, iPads, and iPhones the way
> > that most non-technical do, when they're prompted to do so.
> >
> > They don't have any problems and there's no way that they'd be
> > interested in checking package names - or understanding these names if
> > they read them.
>
> I also had good luck with *buntus, but it's good luck, it could go
> wrong, I read it all the times on *buntu lists and I definitively
> disagree regarding to iOS upgrades for my iPad 2. I won the iPad, if I
> would have bought the iPad, I would be pissed off. And AFAIK it's
> impossible to downgrade to the last release of iOS that was stable on my
> iPad.
A little bit Linux related: There was jackd available for the iPad, but
when Apple switched from iOS 6 to iOS 7, they changed something and it's
impossible to use jackd now and also impossible for the coders to make
jackd available for the iPad again.
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