New kernel, should be the default

Barry K. Nathan barryn at pobox.com
Sun Oct 10 08:02:22 UTC 2004


On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:12:07AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> If you use up2date, the default in FC3-T2 is the *old* kernel. But ever
> since up2date came into existence, the default has been the *new*
> kernel. This idea of booting the old kernel by default is new behavior,
> and only since the FC3 test releases at that.
> 
> Who changed the default, and why? It took me two days to find out that I
> *wasn't* using the newest kernel! Changing defaults like that should
> ***NOT*** be done lightly and without notifying the user.

This is a bug not a feature! (And some of us have been seeing it since
FC2.)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115253

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn at pobox.com>




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