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Re: Kernel 2.4 for etch or not



On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 03:57:45PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday 29 January 2006 00:30, Holger Levsen wrote:
> >     There are several reasons why 2.4 is still interesting:
> >     - Kernel 2.6 is still a moving target...
> 
> As Marco d'Itri pointed out, this will stay this way, so I'm confirmed, that 
> some people will continue to want to use 2.4 instead :-p 

Just get ride of it, so we can kill initrd-tools too :)

> Seriously, I know more than one (professional ISP) setup, where people happily 
> run recent 2.4 kernels and told me, they want to continue as long as 
> possible... 

The question is, will they run debian kernels, or their home-built ones ? 

Another option is to only provide the 2.4 kernel sources, but no built
packages.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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