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@xxxxxx> wrote:

On 2008-01-27 08:23 +0100, David Palmer wrote:

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:48:52 -0500
*** thompson <rhomp2002@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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