Re: Brief question as to the Linux kernel in use in the Stable version of Etch
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:41:43 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2008-01-27 08:23 +0100, David Palmer wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:48:52 -0500
> > dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >> My ethernet adapter is an ATTANSIC Gigabyte L1 (also released since the
> >> takeover of ATTANSIC by ATHEROS as the ATHEROS Gigabyte L1. From what I
> >> have been able to find out the earliest kernel supporting this adapter
> >> is the 2.6.22.
> >
> > Then you need to upgrade to the 'lenny' distribution.
> > Or depending on what you are running, even SID.
> > That's my standard desktop now.
>
> Please stop giving such clueless and *totally wrong* advice.
No it isn't.
I find sid a much better option than testing.
The fixes, those that are required, arrive a lot more quickly.
It is
> perfectly possible (and in fact very easy) to just install a new kernel
> and keep the rest of the system at the stable version.
Why would he want to do that?
Unless I severely misjudge the situation, he's looking for a desktop.
As a desktop, stable answers to the same description that the OP used to describe the kernel - out dated.
Debian stable is known for that.
"clueless and *totally wrong* advice" looks like a classic example of Freudian transference from my perception.
Regards,
David Palmer.
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