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Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?



On 08/26/06 03:26:12PM +0000, Sam Morris wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:02:04 +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > Am Samstag 26 August 2006 15:15 schrieb Theodore Tso:
> >> No support for: (The * are critical)
> >>
> >> 	* SATA Hard Drives (*)
> >> 	* Intel AD1981 HD Audio (*)
> > 
> > This stuff did not even exist when Sarge was released. Half of userland would 
> > not fit this hardware, so who cares.
> 
> How do other long-lived distributions handle this problem? How does one
> install RHEL 4 on such a machine?

RH releases updated install discs periodically. I haven't had any hardware
issues with them so I never compared the contents of the discs but I would
assume that they update the kernels with each update release. 

Jim.



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