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Re: woody kernel question



On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:56:29PM -0800, Geoff Ludwiczak wrote:
> I have been using kernel 2.4.18-pre9 for the past couple days and see no
> problems with it so far.  I was using 2.4.17 before, and had no troubles with
> it either.  Try 2.4.17, but if you're going to use 2.2, then just use 2.2.20.
> 

Thanks, but now I have another question. Where does one find 2.4.18-pre9?
When I read your message, I thought gee that's strange 2.2.17 is the highest 
version that I saw at http.us.debian.org. So I did update again in dselect and
still see no 2.4.18-pre9. Where is it found?



> On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:34:00PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > I have just done dist-upgrade from Potato to Woody. I have been using/learning
> > Debian for a few months. This was the first serious change from my initial
> > installation. The upgrade went smoothly, but took a while at 56k. I found many
> > nice improvements, but saw that the kernel had not been upgraded. I suppose I
> > could have known this before hand if I had read the right documents more
> > carefully, but I didn't. 
> > 
> > Now I look at the offerings of kernels in dselect. Which is recommended?
> > Of course I have to choose one that corresponds to my CPU, but what of 
> > versioning? I see 2.2.20, 2.4.13, 2.4.14, 2.4.16, and 2.4.17. There are
> > limits to my adventurousness. Which is the likely choise for the default
> > Woody kernel when it becomes "stable"? I think I would like to use that one
> > if there are not good reasons to avoid it now.
> > 
> > Thanks.
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