Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jul 2001, Wayne Topa wrote: > > [snip] > I have been running the 2.4.x kernels since 2.4.2, currently have > 2.4.6 under test. No problems at all on any of the 2.4.x series. > I have 2 other boxes running 2.4.5 but will upgrade then both in a > few days. > > Don't know the oldest Linux

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-10 Thread Victor
Dear Friends, thank you very much indeed for all your valuable answers. In this very moment on another console I'm just downloading the DEBs of kernel 2.4.5 from Bunk stuff via apt-get dist-upgrade. By the way, I didn't imagine to start that nice side-thread on the age of Debian users which IMHO

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions Date: Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:15:29AM -0500 In reply to:olgnuby Quoting olgnuby([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Well, any way, it worked, and yes, like you, I maintain both kernels on > the install. Just in case. Don&

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:56:20AM -0400, User zos wrote: > Wow...I wish more older people were as tech savvy as you. I haven't been > able to get my mother at age 43 to even adapt to Windows9x. Just bide your time. At 40 my mom didn't touch the audio system as she thought having to select the ra

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread olgnuby
The following is an excerpt from a message I was going to post the day before I decided to go ahead and make the leap anyway. ;-) -- OK! Deb. You win. Been used to doing things my way all my life and a lot of time's I'm used to doing things other Linux ways. Taking a good laugh at my

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread User zos
Wow...I wish more older people were as tech savvy as you. I haven't been able to get my mother at age 43 to even adapt to Windows9x. I am using a "vanilla" Linux 2.4.5 kernel asides from making the necessary updates on my potato distro. The good news is this. You can update whatever distro you are

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread Victor
Thanks Charlie for your reply, and, by the way, I'm not that much younger than you are (51) even though still in production :-)! What I want (and I have now with kernel 2.2.19!) is a *STABLE* linux laptop (a) to use also at work (b) to run hylafax as a server when it is needed, (c) almost invariab

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread olgnuby
Victor wrote: > > Having a wonderfully stable debian 2.2r3 box with kernel 2.2.19 > compiled & tailored to my laptop's needs, I wonder if it is worth my > while upgrading to kernel 2.4.5. > > My specific focus is on stability. > > What's your experience on this? > > Ciao > Vittorio I've seen t