Recently we upgraded to 12.04 from 11.10, kubuntu 32 bit. And lost google-earth in the process (OS freezes). There's a bug report on it but its not fixed yet. So to make things a bit easier why not retain a coupla previous kernels within the repositories? That way what worked prior to updates/upgrades will probably work again (if it happens to be a kernel issue like this one).

One may require some type of "Regress" checkbox within the package maintainers (synaptic, muon, whatever)... or a new source list could be implemented to make the prior kernel(s) available.

Of course would not normally regress unless a specific app critical to normal usage went bust from a subsequent kernel update (such as was my (and many others) situation).

Increase amount of ram supported by kernel from 4GB up to 16GB for x86 architecture.

Lot of people buys computers with at least 4gb ram, so to use full power they need to recompile the kernel every time update comes.

I'm one of them, system sees normaly only 3GB of ram, but after kernel recompilation, which was a pain i must say, everything works as it should.

so please do the small change, so we users will not need to do it everytime.

best regards,
przem

Make an extra repository for latest kernels. Many of us have problems with devices that are not compatible with the kernel. Some of these problems are solved with the next kernel. For example my atheros works with 2.6.25 but i am stack with 2.6.24 and i had to wait for 6 months to get a new kernel and have my wifi working. There sould be a repo for kernel updates and the users will have the choice to activate it or not.