Hello ! I'm Sebastien Munch, from Adelux, a free software services company in France. We remotely manage Debian servers for our customers. We work much on newer hardware, especially IBM servers.
With Woody and Linux 2.4.18, we were forced to abandon Debian kernels because Debian didn't support newer hardware. We had to use home-made installation procedures because the standard procedure wasn't able to detect hard disks or network interfaces. We would like to know what will be Debian's policy about new kernels and drivers : will newer hardware be supported or not ? For the future of our servers, we have 3 choices: - use the Debian kernels - prepare ourselves to apply patches on the Debian kernel, when it will be necessary - use home-made kernels, never use Debian's ones The choice we will do depends on the following points: - Will new drivers be backported if using always the same kernel version ? - Or will Debian totally change its policy and use different kernel versions ? - Will the installation procedure evolve to support new hardware as it appears ? Thanks a lot for any help. -- Sebastien Munch Linux and free software engineer Adelux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
