From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dalek.dhs.org(c877730-b.grlnd1.tx.home.com[24.11.216.249]) (2074 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:19:09 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from davros by dalek.dhs.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14d3gj-0000Zj-00 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:19:09 -0600 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:19:09 -0600 From: Buddy Brannan To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: installing linux via network. Message-ID: <20010313231909.A2208@dalek.dhs.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from frankiec@braille.uwo.ca on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:11:15AM -0500 List-Id: If Slackware's past behavior is any indication, I suspect that you won't see kernel 2.4 until 7.3 or 8.0 (depending on how they decide to number their next revision or two). They seem to be somewhat, shall we say, conservative in their adoption of the next major kernel release. I think, though couldn't swear, that Slackware was the second-to-last to adopt the 2.2 kernel. Debian was the only distro that I canthink of that took longer...although I think that this was for different reasons. When Slackware 4.0 came out, I believe 2.2-enabled distros had been out for quite some time, and it took until the next revision after that for Slack to migrate to glibc2.1. So they're rather conservative like that, but on the other hand, far as I can tell, it's a nice, solid distro, and I must say I like it quite a lot. (I started with Slack--now run Debian, although I don't really have any problem with Slack.) -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV | I choose you to take up all of my time. Email: davros@ycardz.com | I choose you because you're funny and kind Phone: (972) 276-6360 | I want easy people from now on. | --the Nields