I have installed Debian 2.6.32-5-686 on two machines. One, a custom machine, has a Pentium III processor running at 800 megahertz, and has 500 megabytes of memory; the other is an IBM Mpro Intellistation 6229 with a Pentium IIII processor running at 2.2 gigahertz, and has 2 gigabytes of memory.
Debian notified me of updates for some time after I had had put it on those machines. Then it ceased to have anything to say about updates. I have four questions to ask about maintaining Debian. (1) Am I to update the kernel periodically? Is there advantage to doing so? (2) If I do, will I again receive notices of updates, and will these reference only the new kernel or the new kernel and also other programs that I have installed? (3) If I update the kernel, do I simply download it and install it over the old one, or is there some process of uninstalling the old kernel that is needed before a later kernel is put in? (4) How much disc space, at the minimum, should I allot to Debian, if I leave it essentially in a single block on the primary disc drive? I assume that OpenOffice will be installed automatically (since it was earlier); and I will try to install XAMPP, WordPress, and Drupal. Thank you for helping me to understand how to maintai8n these systems. -- William Lee Valentine --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
