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Re: Pre-Port Usability Question



Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> If you press F2 or F3 (I forget which) at the boot prompt, it will show
> you how to get a 2.6 kernel.  It is that way because 2.4 is consistently
> better across all the architectures that Debian supports (not
> necessarily true for i386, but true when you consider how well the
> kernel supports all of the architectures).

Untrue; the debian installer defaults to 2.6 for powerpc; 2.6 is the
only option for hppa; etc. We use 2.4 for i386 because it was too late
to change the default by the time we became somewhat confident of 2.6 on
that architecture.

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see shy jo

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