On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 the mental interface of Colin Watson told: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:05:30PM +1000, Evan Read wrote: > > I was wondering if, going against the Debian stable grain, kernel > > updates (like the seemingly well tested 2.4.19) kernel will ever make > > it into stable? > > It's certainly been known in the past for this to happen, especially in > low-numbered point revisions. They frequently fix serious installation > bugs on one type of hardware or another, and upgraders don't have to use > the new kernel unless they want to do so. > > However, it's largely up to the kernel maintainer. [...] apt-cache search kernel-image | grep 2.4.19 kernel-image-2.4.19-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.19 on \ 386. kernel-image-2.4.19-586tsc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.19 \ on Pentium-Classic. kernel-image-2.4.19-686 - Linux kernel image 2.4.19 on \ PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. kernel-image-2.4.19-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.19 on \ PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP. kernel-image-2.4.19-k6 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.19 on AMD K6/K6-II/K6-III kernel-image-2.4.19-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.19 on \ AMD K7. ;-)) Ciao Elimar -- Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads ;-) --
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