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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

Sheldon Isaac wrote:
>
> Yep, with your kernel that uses the 2.4.31 stuff. But I guess your kernel is
> smaller?  than the 2.4.31 one that the DSL developers sort-of don't like
> (they went back to 2.4.26 after some objections from users)  because it
> doesn't support some older hardware?

That would make sense. That would also explain why Sindi experienced
problems with a 720K floppy disk.

I noticed that Debian has created their own forks of 2.4.27 and 2.6.8,
among other kernel versions. They appear to be attempting to stabilize
the kernel source code. Their 2.6 kernel bzImage is 1MB, less than
one-third the size of the Slackware 2.6-testing bzImage. It has about
the same functionality as a 600K 2.4 kernel.

David