Re: 2.4 Kernel Stability
On Monday 30 June 2003 09:49, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need many of the new features in a 2.4 based kernel on my portable.
> However, I like the Stable
> packages, as I have not had any issues, except my own lack of knowledge
> of Debian on a laptop.
Stable is good. :) The latest version of Debian stable is version 3.0r1.
Be carefull not to confuse the version of the Debian distribution with the
version of the kernel. They are entirely seperate things.
Searching for kernel-image packages on
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
Reveals that stable in fact contain both 2.2.20, 2.4.16 and 2.4.18 images so
there are a few to choose from.
For your Pentium4 this version might be a good choice:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686.html
If you want alsa you have to download the source, patch it since alsa is not
build into 2.4 kernels and then compile a new image with
make-kpkg kernel-image
Other than that I can see no issues with running kernel 2.4. In fact I would
recommend it.
Anders
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