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Re: What is the difference between Potato and Woody?



On 10-Mar-2002 Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
> I have started reading details about Woody. (I am running Potato on all
> of my machines with the 2.4 kernel).
> 
> I was surprise to see that the 2.4 kernel is "optional". This leads me
> to a fundamental question... What makes Woody different?
> 
> Are there structure changes (layout, etc.) that are incompatible with
> Potato? If not, why not just keep upgrading the packages.
> 

2.4 is the default though, you still have the choice of using 2.2.

Woody is roughly 2 years worth of new code.  That is the big difference.  XFr
ee 4.x not 3.3.x, etc.



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