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  • From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] thoughts about default kernel branch (moving to 2.6.x somewhen)
  • Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 06:22:15 -0800

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 9:30 am, Wolfgang Scheicher wrote:
> As far as i can tell there are less and less problems with 2.6.x kernels.
> I myself switched my work system to 2.6.x when 2.6.2 got released, and with
> my new glibc i burned the bridges behind me.
>
> So when shall we use 2.6.x as default for the linux spell and the iso?
>
> We shouldn't do it to early, but propably shouldn't wait too long either.
>
> I for myself belive that things work well enough to switch test grimoire to
> 2.6.x kernels soon (within the next weeks). And stable somewhen later when
> it's save. This doesn't mean that users have to upgrade, it's more about
> what shall be default. However, a user should not run into too much
> troubles when using the default :-)
>
> So - Which kernels are you running, and which problems did you run into
> because of your kernel?
>
> Worf

What was the consensus on this issue? Apparently we are looking rather out
of
date on distrowatch.com, since our kernel is listed as 2.4.25.

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