"Björn Johansson" wrote: > > On Monday 01 January 2001 17:18, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > "Björn Johansson" schrieb: > > > How will the Debian distribution take advantage of the new features > > > which comes with the 2.4 kernel? If I run Debian2.2r2 with a 2.4 kernel > > > rather than with a 2.2 kernel, what's the big differance? > > > > Are there any particular features you think of? > > How about the DevFS?
That's not in the official 2.2 AFAIK, there may be inoffical backports though. > > > As I have understood it, many features of the 2.4 kernel has been > > > backported to the 2.2 kernel, right? > > > > I assume you still use an Amiga? APUS doesn't have any backports in 2.2 . > > Well, it's true that I still use Amiga. But in the future I will get myself > an Ibook, so it's interesting to know what's going on in the ordinary > powermac kernels. > > By the way, are there any specific Ibook models which don't work very good > (or maybe just don't work at all) with Debian? AFAIK they should work fine with current kernels and X. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
