Re: Kernel decision

[Tobias Krais <tuxmail-spam@bats.ch>]

Hi Koen,

>>I was planning on getting the vanilla 2.6.13 as soon as it is out and apply 
>>the MM patchset (good idea for laptops?).
> 
> Enlighten me: What does the 2.6.13 kernel and/or the mm patches
> specifically add for laptop users? 

Kernel 2.6.13 has better ACPI support (Suspent to disk, suspend to RAM)
- that is what I read.
And the mm patches has drivers that didn't succeed to come with in
2.6.13, e.g. Reiser4.

So I would say: Kernel 2.6.13 is good, but mm Patches are not nessecary
if you don't need the drivers.

Greetings, Tobias