On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:30:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > 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. > OK. I seem to remember the earlier decision being made based on the fact that 2.6 wasn't the best choice for some architectures. I was unaware that changed later in the release cycle. Thanks for the info. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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