kernel question

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Sat Oct 11 15:28:44 UTC 2003


On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Mike Watson wrote:

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> On Saturday 11 October 2003 07:42 am, Andy Hall wrote:
> > please excuse my numptiness, but I don't seem to be able to find out
> > what kernel is shipping in severn?
> >
> > I'm hoping it's greater than 2.4.21 as I'm looking for intel 875
> > chipset support "out of the box" so to speak :-)
> >
> > could somebody please let me know?
> >
> > thankyou.
> 
> IIRC, the most recent stable kernel from kernel.org is 2.4.22.  2.6 
> isn't yet stable.

ummmm ... there are buttloads of people using the current 2.6.0
test release quite happily at the moment.  i've been on it since
2.5.4x and i've never had it lock up on me or do anything bad.

if you really need 2.6 functionality, just get the kernel.

rday





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