Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > If you press F2 or F3 (I forget which) at the boot prompt, it will show > you how to get a 2.6 kernel. It is that way because 2.4 is consistently > better across all the architectures that Debian supports (not > necessarily true for i386, but true when you consider how well the > kernel supports all of the architectures).
Untrue; the debian installer defaults to 2.6 for powerpc; 2.6 is the only option for hppa; etc. We use 2.4 for i386 because it was too late to change the default by the time we became somewhat confident of 2.6 on that architecture. -- see shy jo
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