Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

Hi all,

I ran into problems with Gnome automounting CDs and USB flash drives over the weekend. I have been sticking with Sarge, and I had been using a backports kernel (2.6.15) that I custom compiled back in February, but when I bought a new video card recently I found that I had to compile a new kernel module to get 3D working properly. At that point, I decided that I might as well grab the latest kernel sources and upgrade the entire kernel (to 2.6.18).
Unfortunately, 'hal' stopped working, and that broke 'gnome-volume- manager'. I saw that backports had an upgrade for 'udev', and I installed that hoping for a quick fix. The backports 'udev' conflicted with 'hal' and 'hotplug', and I found myself facing a big decision.

Since Etch is nearly ready to be released, I decided that my best bet was to keep the new kernel and replace everything else! ;-) I chose to dist-upgrade to Etch.
I've been using Etch now since Sunday night, and everything is working really smooth. Everything seems a lot faster, too. No doubt some of that is due to the improved video card, but boot time is faster and everything I do when working without X also seems faster.

I would like to thank the developers who are busting their buns to get Etch ready for release! Can anyone suggest other Debian mailing lists I can post my thanks to, so that the greatest possible number of developers will see it? (I realize that "thanks" is just noise, and not productive, but everyone wants to hear that their hard work is appreciated!)


Dave W.


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