[rescue] Re: G5 case

[Peter Corlett]

Eric Dittman <dittman at dittman.net> wrote:
[...]
> The problem with the unchangingness of Debian stable is everything is so
> out of date that unless you start upgrading everything you miss a lot of
> features. I install Debian stable and did a dist-update to the latest
> unstable and found I still had the old, slow 2.2 kernel.

Given the fiasco over the 2.4.x kernel series, especially the versions
current at the time of the release of woody, it strikes me as pretty
sensible that the stock kernel remains a well-tested version 2.2 kernel.

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