On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 13:04 +0800, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> I am actually looking forward to Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x.
> As we all know, Debian 6.0.x is still using the old Linux Kernel
> 2.6.
>
> When will Debian 7.0 be released? Debian with Linux Kernel 3.x
> release seems very slow when all the other Linux distros already
> have the latest Linux Kernel 3.x. Why do I want Linux Kernel 3.x?
> Because I want to play around with Xen virtualization (dom0
> required).
You do not have to wait for wheezy's release (which will be released when it is
ready) if all you want from it is a new kernel. Recent kernels can be installed
quite easily from backports:
1. Follow http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/
(you might want "main contrib non-free" if you need firmware)
2. Run: apt-get -t squeeze-backports install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,')
That will install a suitable metapackage for your system from backports and
would pull in linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 at the moment.
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