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[Alan]

T. Joseph CARTER wrote:

  Sarge
> hasn't been released yet, and Debian stable uses a 2.2 kernel still.
> 

As much as I hate "distribution wars":

ajb at sprocket:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
3.0
ajb at sprocket:~$ apt-cache search kernel-image
kernel-image-2.2.20 - Linux kernel binary image for version 2.2.20.
kernel-image-2.2.20-compact - Linux kernel binary image.
kernel-image-2.2.20-idepci - Linux kernel binary image.
...
kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18 on386.
kernel-image-2.4.18-1-586tsc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18
kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 - Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on
kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on
ajb at sprocket:~$

While it's true that 2.2 is the default kernel(is this still the case? I 
know you can use 'bf24' to boot directly into a 2.4 kernel),changing to 
a 2.4 kernel is as easy as an apt-get.

This is _no_ different than updating your kernel on a RedHat box, or 
even downloading the source and compiling your own.


-ajb