Nick Boyce wrote:
Grok Mogger wrote:
Also, I have to say this whole problem I've stumbled on to seems kind of
silly to me in a way. I love Debian's approach to stability and
security, but why not at least keep adding hardware support to the
kernel as it becomes available? Seems like it would make a lot of sense
to at least just keep adding drivers even if the rest of the kernel
remains frozen at 2.6.18 or whatever.
It seems the kernel fairy may indeed answer your wishes :-)
The latest Debian Weekly News [1] mentions there are already tentative
plans to add updated kernels to Etch during its lifecycle, specifically
to add support for new hardware ... yay :-)
[1] http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2007/02/
See the section "Updates during the Etch Life Cycle".
Cheers
Nick Boyce
Very cool! Thanks for letting me know. Of course, 9 months is
still a little long to wait for me. I still don't really get
it. If the kernel source from kernel.org is "stable", then is
there really any harm in having the Debian kernel keep up with
that? Is the latest stable release from kernel.org just not
really tried and true enough for Debian's standards?
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