Matt Porter wrote: > > I'm considering changing the default powerpc kernel when the released > 2.2.14 comes out since it looks like it will have some significant PReP > bug fixes included. > > I'm curious if the pmac/chrp community has any feelings on this. I'm really > concerned about the pmac community since I don't have any good feedback > on what kernel version will support the most platforms or what we need to > cover the other cases that don't work well. All I have to go by is that my > Starmax is rock solid on the current 2.2.12 based installer as well as on > the 2.2.14pre4 local builds. > > Anybody with the time to track what is used on other PPC distributions > are using for optimial pmac support could really help by feeding that info > back here. > > Speak now...my theory is that we want to keep moving to the latest stable > release as long as it's not one that pulls the old "break all archs but x86" > move.
I'm for it. I got my hands on a RS/6000 on loan (yay! F40!) and I'm of the opinion that 2.2.14 is looking the best of a very *very* bad lot. (let's just say I kinda got burned). Also, on x86, potato has some weirdness in packages (as of 2/11/1999 at least), specificially in apt-get dist-upgrade w/debconf. Can somebody check into this ASAP and make sure this is NOT present currently? This is *DEFINITELY* a showstopper bug, but I was NOT paying attention to my dist-upgrade so I'm not positive it's a real bug and not just some stupidity on the part of my PC. Thanks. :) -prj
