From: orlandini@tesre.bo.cnr.it   
      
   Il Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:43:13 +0000, sctvguy1 ha scritto:   
      
   > I used PCLinuxOS from 2009 until about Feb. of 2014.  Their constant   
   > kernel troubles with my equipment, the bum ATI driver and other things   
   > led me to drop it.  Rolling distros seem to break a lot of things on a   
   > regular basis.  That is why I went to an enterprise Linux with   
   > ultra-long support times.   
      
   In this case the problem was due to a change in ATI policy (drop of   
   support of "old" cards) together with a major kernel update in which some   
   functions were passed from the graphic card drivers to the kernel.   
      
   Texstar (the PCLinuxOS maintainer) did a hell of a job to adjust things   
   (by creating legacy-drivers), and now everything is working.   
      
   I agree with you that an update can break a perfectly working system: the   
   trick is to wait a couple of days before applying it (especially if there   
   are major updates, like graphic drivers or kernel) and read infos on the   
   forum.   
      
   For example, the application of the patches to bash in order to solve the   
   shellshock problem made the system unbootable for few people.  It took a   
   couple of days to discover there is a bug in the patch that comes out   
   only if you have /usr in its own partition (a condition not so common,   
   but few people had it).  Now the problem is solved, but in the forum a   
   backup solution was immediately given (and this is really a fantistic   
   added value of pclos: if you have a problem it is usually solved very   
   quickly).   
      
   Anyway, the good thing about linux is that there are many options, and   
   everyone is free to choose whatever suits her/his own needs.   
      
   Ciao, Mauro   
      
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