[ale] linux recommendations
James Baldwin
jbaldwin at antinode.net
Sat Dec 25 10:41:04 EST 2004
On 23 Dec 2004, at 19:02, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 19:58 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>> First take of Debian stable surprised me to see they're running a 2.2
>> kernel. We're talking two kernel generations back? I was quite
>> surprised by this.
>
> Welcome to the world of Debian where nothing is released before it's
> time, nor is it released during it's time, and only released after it's
> time. ;-)
>
> FWIW, I run unstable on my everyday laptop with good success and few if
> any problems in the past year, none major. Try Debian testing, and if
> that satisfies you experiment with Unstable if you have the time.
The install image includes the 2.4 kernel, use bf2.4 when you boot or
press F3 at the boot screen for other kernel options. This kernel is
compiled with ReiserFS and Ext3.
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