Thanks for all the responses to my query.
s.
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 01:55:13PM +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> Sam Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > What are the advantages (and disadvantages ) of Linux 2.4 compared
> > with Linux 2.2? References will suffice.
>
> * netfilter/iptables
Moin Urs!
Urs Thuermann schrieb am Saturday, den 11. January 2003:
> * Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
* new generation MD driver (raid)
> * File systems: ext3, reiserfs, tmpfs (RAM based FS that shares the
> swap space), devfs (device file system)
* JFS, cramfs for read-only-filesystems
Sam Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What are the advantages (and disadvantages ) of Linux 2.4 compared
> with Linux 2.2? References will suffice.
* netfilter/iptables instead of ipchains: Better packet filtering,
e.g. stateful filtering, many more matches on packets with lots of
kern
2.2 runs better than 2.4 on older hardware. The differences are
relatively minor. The workload was a as a server. IIRC, it was on
Slashdot.
Here are some references, but not the one I was thinking of:
http://www.nks.net/linux-vm.html
http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=642
http://cs.nmu.e
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Once upon a time Sam Rosenfeld wrote @ Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:31:15 -0500
> What are the advantages (and disadvantages ) of Linux 2.4 compared
> with Linux 2.2? References will suffice.
>
> Thanks.
>
For me, The most important is the ext3 journalized
> I am trying to figure out what kernel I should use, for the next 6
> months at least anyway. Security is my main objective, most other
> things can go to the wall if they conflict.
>
> But I would like my Nvidia card to work with a 2.2 kernel, and I
> would like to be able to use cdrecord/xc
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002, Penguin wrote:
> Debian website says 2.4 is not really mature enough yet, does this mean
> mature enough security wise also?
>
> I am trying to figure out what kernel I should use, for the next 6 months at
> least anyway. Security is my main objective, most other things can
As far as XFree86 version 4.1, you can see
http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/
Penguin wrote:
Given that I am super paranoid, maybe my old Debian 2.2r2 Potato is the best
bet for me. Is there any reason why I may not be able to upgrade X to XFree
4.1 with this version of Potat
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:17:33AM +1100, Penguin wrote:
| Debian website says 2.4 is not really mature enough yet, does this mean
| mature enough security wise also?
2.4 is newer than 2.2 and (therefore) hasn't been tested as much.
| I am trying to figure out what kernel I should use, for the n
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