On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 23:31 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Am So den 1. Feb 2009 um 18:57 schrieb Luk Claes: > > > With lenny the provided glibc seems to be incompatible to kernel 2.4. > > > There are many systems out there still running with kernel 2.4 cause > > > stability. (My servers which needs to be stable all run Kernel 2.4.) Since 2.4 is not supported by Debian and is barely supported by a few kernel developers, it is hardly the stable option. If you are aware of specific unfixed bugs in Linux 2.6, I suggest you report them. > > s/lenny/etch/ > > ? lenny is still correct. etch runs fine with kernel 2.4 (and lower by > the way). Maybe it works for you, but it is not supported. This was made fairly clear in the release notes: <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-newkernel>, <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-incompatible-2.4>. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway.
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