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Re: booting from CD on Alphastation 255



Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> Before I build myself a custom kernel does anyone have any suggestions
> on whether I should go with 2.4 or 2.6? Is 2.6 stable on an alpha and
> would it probably be slower on such old hardware?

I find 2.6 to be quite usable on older x86 and PPC hardware, but last
I looked it had some problems on alpha (like "kernel panics if you
used ext3" kind of problems).  I'm not sure if they're fixed, my Alpha
hasn't been powered up in a while because of the noise and heat it
generates :-/

Cameron.

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