Re: Kernel upgrades.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Al Hudson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Matthew John Palmer wrote:
> 
> > Why does everyone insist on running the latest, greatest kernel, unless
> > they've got a need for the latest, greatest hardware support.
> 
> Security & speed are the other two main reasons, plus you get all the bug
> fixes for free. And everyone doesn't insist on using it AFAIK, 'cos I
> certainly don't. :-)
> 

 Mmm.

 Must say it hadn`t really occured to me to stick with older versions of
the kernel...although I`m running newer hardware on my system that has
had a few driver updates since 2.2.5 to 2.2.14 (all the time I`ve been
running Linux).

 Dunno if upgrading to 2.4 will be done straight away tho.

 All you old timers out there that remember 2.0 > 2.2 was there many
teething problems with the new tree?

 Baz.

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