On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:30:23PM -0800, Peter Farley wrote: > > "Bleeding edge technology"?!?! I bought the Dell 8400 > as-is and used (from the Dell bargain area) over two > years ago. "Bleeding edge" it ain't. > As Andrew pointed out, Etch is going to release anytime now and has been in freeze for a few months. Calling it bleeding edge is not correct. > > C'mon, a simple old system like a Dell 8400 should be > long-since supported by stable code, even among the > volunteer community. > Well, the 2.6.8 kernel (shipped with Sarge) was released on 14 August 2004. At *that* time, the machine was bleeding edge compared to the kernel support for SATA. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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